carritch

plural carritches

1. Scotlandin pluralA catechism.

   Can I forget how lang and weel The carritches ye made me read ?

   1870, Edwin Paxton Hood, The Peerage of Poverty

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   "Do sae, minister — do sae," cried Madge; "I am as weel worth looking at as ony book in your aught. — And I can say the single carritch, and the double carritch, and justification, and effectual calling, and the assembly of divines at Westminster, that is," (she added in a low tone) " I could say them anes -- but it's lang syne -- and ane forgets, ye ken."

   1818, Sir Walter Scott, The heart of Midlothian

   Christily is a most faithful young woman with a face as red and lush as a rasp, who knows her carritches both ways, and has such a reverence for ministers that she looks upon me more as an edifice than a mortal.

   1902, James Matthew Barrie, The Little White Bird