Lexicographical Neighbors of Cratches
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Literary usage of Cratches
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia of Anecdotes: Illustrative of Character and Events from by George Ramsay (1828)
"An old woman in the workhouse at Yeovil, who had long been a cripple, and made
use of cratches, was strongly inclined to drink of the ..."
2. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"[< cratch^ + cradle; but prob, an accom. of cat's-cradle, qv] Same as cat's-cradle.
cratches (krach'ez). ». pi. [PI. of 'cratch^, «., < kratzen, ..."
3. A Glossary of Words Used in the Wapentakes of Manley and Corringham by Edward Peacock (1877)
"... of Barton-upon-Hum- ber had at his death in 1652 ' 5 sheep cratches.'— Geni.
Mag. 1861, u. 505. (3) A pig-cratch, qv cratches, s. pi. swellings to which ..."
4. A Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry and the Arts by William Nicholson (1810)
"Another thing to be attended to, in making the wire bisect two »cratches, is to
take care that it bisects them in the part where they cut the circle; ..."
5. The Encyclopedia of Anecdotes: Illustrative of Character and Events from by George Ramsay (1828)
"An old woman in the workhouse at Yeovil, who had long been a cripple, and made
use of cratches, was strongly inclined to drink of the ..."
6. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"[< cratch^ + cradle; but prob, an accom. of cat's-cradle, qv] Same as cat's-cradle.
cratches (krach'ez). ». pi. [PI. of 'cratch^, «., < kratzen, ..."
7. A Glossary of Words Used in the Wapentakes of Manley and Corringham by Edward Peacock (1877)
"... of Barton-upon-Hum- ber had at his death in 1652 ' 5 sheep cratches.'— Geni.
Mag. 1861, u. 505. (3) A pig-cratch, qv cratches, s. pi. swellings to which ..."
8. A Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry and the Arts by William Nicholson (1810)
"Another thing to be attended to, in making the wire bisect two »cratches, is to
take care that it bisects them in the part where they cut the circle; ..."
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