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scatches

scatches is the plural of scatch.

Meaning of scatch

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.

Questions about scatches

What is scatches the plural of?
Scatches is the plural of scatch.

Words near scatches in the dictionary

  1. scatback
  2. scatbacks
  3. scatch
  4. Scatcherd
  5. Scatcherds
  6. scatches
  7. scate
  8. scates
  9. scath
  10. scathand
  11. scathe

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