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▪ I. scatch1|skætʃ|
Forms: 5–6 scache, 6 skache, 7 skatch, 6–8 scatch, 9 dial. sketch.
[a. ONF. escache = Central OF. eschasse (mod.F. échasse), whence Du. schaats skate n.2]
1. A stilt; usually pl. scatches. Obs. exc. dial.
1545Elyot Dict., Grallatores, they which dooe goe on styltes or skaches. 1570Levins Manip. 5/44 A Scache, grallus. 1653Urquhart Rabelais ii. i, Others grew in the legs, and to see them, you would have said they had been..men walking upon stilts or scatches. 1681W. Robertson Phraseol. Gen. (1693) 915 Never,..till geese go on scatches. 1730Bailey (fol.), Scatches, Stilts to put the Feet in to walk in dirty Places. 1893Baring-Gould Cheap Jack Zita xii, Sketches?—does that word puzzle you..? They are what some folk call stilts.
2. ? A scaffold-pole. [So. F. échasse.]
1420Searchers Verdicts in Surtees Misc. (1890) 15 William of Alne..sall fynde the brygges, the scaches, nayles, and all the tymbre that sall ga un to the gutter.
▪ II. † scatch2 Obs.
Also 5–6 scache.
[ad. It. scaccia (ˈskatʃa), whence F. escache.]
An oval bridle-bit. Also scatch-mouth.
1565–80Blundevil Art Riding iii. xxiii. 51 Some are called Canon bits, some scatches. 1598Florio, Scaccia, the mouth of a bit called a scache. 1607Markham Caval. ii. (1617) 56 The next bytt you shall vse after the Cannon, shall bee the plaine Scatch. 1611Cotgr., Scace, a Scatch bit. 1704Dict. Rust. (1726) s.v. Bit, The ends of a Scatch⁓mouth can never fail, by reason of their being over-lapped. |