单词 | scatches |
释义 | > as lemmasscatches 1. A stilt; usually plural scatches. Obsolete exc. dialect. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > other means of conveyance > [noun] > stilts stiltc1440 scatch1542 Tom Walker1899 1542 T. Elyot Bibliotheca Grallatores, they whiche do go on styltes or skaches. 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Aiiv/1 A Scache, grallus. 1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 2nd Bk. Wks. i. 5 Others grew in the legs, and to see them, you would have said they had been..men walking upon stilts or scatches. 1681 W. Robertson Phraseologia generalis (1693) 915 Never,..till geese go on scatches. 1730 N. Bailey et al. Dictionarium Britannicum Scatches, Stilts to put the Feet in to walk in dirty Places. 1893 S. Baring-Gould Cheap Jack Zita I. xii. 188 Sketches?—does that word puzzle you..? They are what some folk call stilts. < as lemmas |
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