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‖ paˈtache
Forms: (6 pataxo, 6–8 patacho), 7–8 patach, petach, pattache, 6– patache.
[F. patache (pataʃ), or Sp. patache |paˈtatʃe|, in Pg. patacho, † pataxo, It. patacchia, patascia, patazzio, Du. and Ger. patas; of uncertain origin.]
†1. A small ship used for communication between the vessels of a fleet; an advice-boat. Obs. exc. Hist.
1589Greene Span. Masq. Wks. (Grosart) V. 274 Hee had in his Fleete, of Gallions, Hulkes, Pataches, Zabres, Galeasses, and Gallies 130. 1596in Cecil Papers (Hist. MSS. Comm.) VI. 61 By the help of two patachoes which they had with them, they took a small English bark. Ibid. 62 Patacheoes. 1598W. Phillip Linschoten 192/2 Other smal ships Pataxos, yt came to serue as messengers from place to place. 1633T. Stafford Pac. Hib. iii. vii. (1821) 551 There was a Spanish patach landed the night before. 1666Lond. Gaz. No. 98/3 A Genouese Petach is arrived here with Oyls. 1704Collect. Voy. (Churchill) III. 729/2, 6 Patacho's or Yachts. 1748Anson's Voy. i. iii. 20 A Patache of twenty guns. 1887R. Welford Hist. Newcastle III. 321 The St. Peter, a Spanish patache,..entered the harbour of the Tyne.
2. transf. A small kind of public conveyance used in France.
1833L. Ritchie Wand. by Loire 20 Little country carriages..called pataches (which in general are nothing more than a cart covered with leather, like a cabriolet). |