cratch
a crib for fodder; manger.
Origin of cratch
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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 EarleIf Hone's derivation of the game and its meaning is true, cratch-cradle is the correct name.
Child Life in Colonial Days | Alice Morse EarleCoiros are beeves fattened at the cratch in ox-stalls, or in the fresh guimo meadows.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete. | Francois RabelaisIf the taile of a wolfe be hung in the cratch of Oxen, they can never eat their meate.
Curious Creatures in Zoology | John AshtonIt has not occupied a bacon-cratch or a bread-and-cheese cupboard.
The Great North Road: York to Edinburgh | Charles G. Harper
British Dictionary definitions for cratch
/ (krætʃ) /
a rack for holding fodder for cattle, etc
Origin of cratch
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