recheat
/ɹɪˈt͡ʃiːt/
recheat noun: 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.
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...
- Prior, that last flourish on the recheat hath added fifty crowns to thy ransom, for corrupting the true old manly blasts of venerie.1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co....
Verb
recheat (third-person singular simple present recheats, present participle recheating, simple past and past participle recheated)
- To blow the recheat.
- Rechating with his horne, which then the Hunter cheeres,
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- Rechating with his horne, which then the Hunter cheeres,
Forms of recheat
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | recheats |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | recheats |
| present participle | recheating |
| past participle | recheated |
| past | recheated |
Origin of recheat
Probably from Anglo-Norman; compare Old French racheter (“rally”).
Words that rhyme with recheat
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- entreat
- fleet
- retreat
- treat
- complete
- conceit
- repeat
- concrete
- discrete
- bittersweet
- suite
- cheat
- cleat
- deceit
- greet
- unseat
- compete
- defeat
- delete
- effete
- elite
- escheat
- indiscrete
- leet
- pleat
- skeet
- sleet
- accrete
- beet
- bleat
- gleet
- ifrit
- incomplete
- overeat
- overheat
- petite
- replete
- superheat
- teat
- tweet
- wheat
- yeet
- Bereshit
- Bow Street
- Crete
- discreet
- downbeat
- jeet
Questions about recheat
- What does recheat mean?
- Recheat means 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.
- What part of speech is recheat?
- Recheat can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce recheat?
- Recheat is pronounced /ɹɪˈt͡ʃiːt/.
- What is the plural of recheat?
- The plural of recheat is recheats.
Words near recheat in the dictionary
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