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Definition of Ratches
1. ratch [n] - See also: ratch
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ratches
Literary usage of Ratches
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Diary of Mr. James Melvill, 1556-1601 by James Melville (1829)
"... ratches vnder Right On Lambe alan, bull four to fet thair might. Alas ! alas !
etc,. ... ratches ..."
2. Satirical Poems of the Time of the Reformation by Robert Sempill, Thomas Churchyard (1893)
"Then shal a Hunter in hy come forth of the South With many ratches in row ...
Then shal the ratches in this region rake, And runne their race rudely but any ..."
3. A Middle English Reader by Oliver Farrar Emerson (1915)
"... pe ratches bat him were woned to 2 knowen He scholden sone blowe pe pris ;•
v-jrtr-'*'' An hundred ... 2 te. s ratches on. * 6 wal. T of, from Anch. MS. ..."
4. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"... related to Icel. rakki, a dog. ratches, a mass of scudding clouds ; ' From
all the heauen the ..."
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