scatch

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noun

A kind of bit for the bridle of a horse.

OriginFrench escache ← Italian scaccia →
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Meanings

nounscatch (plural scatches)

plural scatches

  1. obsoleteA kind of bit for the bridle of a horse.

    and thus, having brought your horse to a Post set up for that purpose, and one to assist you with a Rein fastened to the rings of a half Cannon Bit or a Scatch, you having mounted his back, let your assistant hold him to the post with his head facing it,

    1684, Thomas de Grey, The Compleat Horse-Man, and Expert Ferrier, 5th edition, page 236
  2. UKdialectalobsoleteA stilt.

Origin

  1. Italianscaccia
  2. Frenchescache
  3. Englishscatch

From French escache, from Italian scaccia.

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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