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Definition of Cratch
1. n. A manger or open frame for hay; a crib; a rack.
Definition of Cratch
1. Verb. (obsolete) To scratch. ¹
2. Noun. (obsolete) A grated crib or manger. ¹
3. Noun. (nautical) The vertical planks at the forward end of the hold of a traditional English narrowboat which constrain the cargo and support the top plank or walkway. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cratch
1. a manger [n -ES] - See also: manger
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cratch
| crastination crastinations crataegus crataeguses cratch (current term) cratches crate crated crateful cratefuls | crateload crateloads crater crater arc crater face crater lake crater lakes cratered crateriform |
Literary usage of Cratch
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. British Husbandry: Exhibiting the Farming Practice in Various Parts of the by John French Burke (1834)
"It consists of a cratch in the centre for hay, and four mangers projecting from
it for corn or roots ; the whole roofed with boards, and mounted on four ..."
2. The Half-yearly Abstract of the Medical Sciences: Being a Digest of British edited by William Harcourt Ranking, Charles Bland Radcliffe, William Dommett Stone (1864)
"A light steel cratch is attached to the leather on either side. In older children
and young adults he employs a steel spinal instrument, with a posterior ..."
3. On the Study of Celtic Literature and on Translating Homer by Matthew Arnold (1893)
"0 my cratch I stand straight, them wilt support me the better; it is very long
since I was Llywarch. " Behold old age, which makes sport of me, ..."
4. A Glossary; Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1867)
"The sun reduced the solemnized day On which, a king laid in н cratch to find,
... When our Lord lay in the cratch, the oxe and the aese fell down on their ..."
5. British Husbandry: Exhibiting the Farming Practice in Various Parts of the by John French Burke (1834)
"It consists of a cratch in the centre for hay, and four mangers projecting from
it for corn or roots ; the whole roofed with boards, and mounted on four ..."
6. The Half-yearly Abstract of the Medical Sciences: Being a Digest of British edited by William Harcourt Ranking, Charles Bland Radcliffe, William Dommett Stone (1864)
"A light steel cratch is attached to the leather on either side. In older children
and young adults he employs a steel spinal instrument, with a posterior ..."
7. On the Study of Celtic Literature and on Translating Homer by Matthew Arnold (1893)
"0 my cratch I stand straight, them wilt support me the better; it is very long
since I was Llywarch. " Behold old age, which makes sport of me, ..."
8. A Glossary; Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1867)
"The sun reduced the solemnized day On which, a king laid in н cratch to find,
... When our Lord lay in the cratch, the oxe and the aese fell down on their ..."
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