cratch
Americannoun
noun
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Origin of cratch
1175–1225; Middle English cracche < dialectal Old French crache, variant of creche crèche
Example Sentences
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Cratch, krach, n. a crib to hold hay for cattle, a manger.—n.pl.
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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable," thinks this "the corrupt for cratch cradle or manger cradle, in which the infant Saviour was laid.
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An' first of all Tacoma went to cut down the tree, an' him couldn' bear the itch, I mean 'cratch of the tree.
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An' William Tell made a law that any man come to cut the tree they must not 'cratch their 'kin or else they would lose the cow.
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Other examples are:—"The horse take him mout' fe 'cratch him foot," the horse scratches his leg with his mouth.
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