rechate
rechate is the obsolete form of recheat.
Meaning of recheat
Noun
recheat (plural recheats)
- A series of notes blown on a horn as a signal in hunting to call back the hounds when they have lost track of the game.
- [B]ut that I vvill haue a rechate vvinded in my forehead, or hang my bugle in an inuiſible baldricke, all vvomen ſhall pardon mee: becauſe I vvill not doe them the vvrong to miſtruſt any, I vvill doe my ſelfe the right to truſt none: […][1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, Much Adoe about Nothing. […], quarto edition, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley, published 1600, →OCLC, [Act I...
Forms of rechate
| plural | rechates |
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Questions about rechate
- What is rechate the obsolete form of?
- Rechate is the obsolete form of recheat.
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