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▪ I. † rechase, n. Obs.
Also 5 rechas, -chayse, 5, (7) -chace.
[Perh. ad. OF. *rachas, nom. of *rachat recheat n.]
= recheat n. (but in later quots. possibly associated with rechase v.1 2 a).
c1420Venery de Tuety in Rel. Ant. I. 152 Than shall y⊇ blowe on this maner a mote, and aftirward the rechace upon my houndys that be past the boundys. c1420Anturs of Arth. 58 The huntes þei halowe, in hurstes and huwes, And bluwe rechas ryally. c1475Sqr. lowe Degre 772 To here the bugles there yblow,..And sevenscore raches at his rechase. 1634Malory's Arthur ii. cxxxviii, All the blasts that long to all manner of games;..to the rechace [Caxton rechate] to the flight [etc.].
▪ II. reˈchase, v.1 Obs. exc. dial.
Also 5 rechasse, 5–6 rechace.
[a. F. rechasser (13th c.; OF. also rechacier, etc.): see re- and chase v.]
†1. trans. To chase or drive back (an assailant); to chase in turn. Obs.
c1477Caxton Jason 18 After..the worthy Jason had re⁓chaced his enmyes unto nyghe by the ooste. 1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. cccv. 458 These fortresses..made dyuers yssues and assautes on their neighbours, Somtyme chasyng and somtyme rechased agayne. 1614Sylvester Bethulia's Rescue v. 358 One-while the Syrians by the Medes are chas't; Anon the Medes by Syrians are rechas't.
absol.1609Daniel Civ. Wars iv. xlvii, Then these assaile, then those rechase again.
†b. To drive or force back (a thing). Obs.—1
a1533Ld. Berners Gold. Bk. M. Aurel. (1546) Q vij, There is nothyng that more rechaceth the balle of the thought.
2.
†a. Hunting. To chase (a deer) back into the forest. Obs.
c1369Chaucer Dethe Blaunche 39 Withynne a while the herte founde ys I-halowed and rechased faste Longe tyme. 1678Phillips (ed. 4), To Rechace,..among Hunts⁓men is to make homewards, to drive back towards the place where the game was rouzed or started. 1727–41Chambers Cycl. s.v. Rechacing, The keeping of running dogs to rechace the deer into the forests.
b. To drive back (cattle or sheep) from one pasture to another.
1618J. Wilkinson Courts Baron (1620) 147 If any tenant..doth vse in the Summer time or open time of the yeere,.. to bring Cattell from his other Farme into his farme within this Manor,..this is called chasing and rechasing. 1720T. Wood Inst. Laws Eng. iv. i. 490 The Homage may also Enquire..Of Chasing Cattle into the Manor, and Re⁓chasing them. 1851Dorset Gloss., Chase and re-chase, to drive sheep at particular times from one pasture to another.
†c. To drive or course (horses) back over the same ground. Obs.
1607Markham Caval. i. (1617) 54 Albe some Authors giue aduice to chase and rechase your Mares vp and downe the ground. Ibid. iii. 9 The best mettald Horses, if they be chaste and rechaste without..some incouragement, will by degrees growe worse and worse.
†3. intr. ? To be engaged in rechasing. Obs.—1
Perh. a transferred use of 2 a, suggested by the hunting sense of quest; but the correct reading may be theire chase is.
c1485Digby Myst. v. 723 The queste of holborn come into this places, a-geyne the right euer thei rechases.
Hence † reˈchaser; † reˈchasing vbl. n.1
1611Florio, Riccacciamenti, rechasings. 1727–41Chambers Cycl. s.v. Rechacing, Antiently there were offices of rechacers of the deers bestowed by the king on gentlemen, or old hunters.
▪ III. † reˈchase, v.2 Obs. rare.
Also 5 -chace.
[var. of rechate recheat v., after rechase n.]
intr. To recheat. Hence † reˈchasing vbl. n.2
c1450Master of Game (MS. Douce 335) xxxiii. lf. 60 He sholde rechace with oute long mote; for the mote shold neuer be blowe before this rechasyng. |