cratch

How to use cratch in a sentence

• A truly historic game taught by children to each other, is what is called cats-cradle or cratch-cradle.

  Child Life in Colonial Days | Alice Morse Earle

• If Hone's derivation of the game and its meaning is true, cratch-cradle is the correct name.

  Child Life in Colonial Days | Alice Morse Earle

• Coiros are beeves fattened at the cratch in ox-stalls, or in the fresh guimo meadows.

  Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete. | Francois Rabelais

• If the taile of a wolfe be hung in the cratch of Oxen, they can never eat their meate.

  Curious Creatures in Zoology | John Ashton

• It has not occupied a bacon-cratch or a bread-and-cheese cupboard.

  The Great North Road: York to Edinburgh | Charles G. Harper