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scatch

scatch noun: a kind of bit for the bridle of a horse.

Noun

scatch (plural scatches)

  1. (obsolete) A kind of bit for the bridle of a horse.
    • and thus, having brought your horse to a Post set up for that purpose, and one to assist you with a Rein fastened to the rings of a half Cannon Bit or a Scatch, you having mounted his back, let your assistant hold him to the post with his head facing it,1684, Thomas de Grey, The Compleat Horse-Man, and Expert Ferrier, 5th edition, page 236
  2. (UK, dialectal, obsolete) A stilt.

Forms of scatch

pluralscatches

Origin of scatch

From French escache, from Italian scaccia.

Questions about scatch

What does scatch mean?
Scatch means a kind of bit for the bridle of a horse.
What part of speech is scatch?
Scatch is a noun.
What is the plural of scatch?
The plural of scatch is scatches.

Words near scatch in the dictionary

  1. Scatacook
  2. Scatacooks
  3. scatalogical
  4. scatback
  5. scatbacks
  6. scatch
  7. Scatcherd
  8. Scatcherds
  9. scatches
  10. scate
  11. scates

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