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▪ I. rache, ratch, n.1 Obs. exc. arch.|rætʃ|
Forms: 3–6 racch-, (5 rachch-), 4–5 rach, 4–7, 9 rache; 5–6 ratch-, 7–8 ratch.
[OE. ræcc, related to ON. rakki dog.]
A hunting-dog which pursues its prey by scent.
After c 1530 only in Sc. use: cf. quot. 1576.
c1000Ags. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 276/4 Molosus, roþhund. Unfer, griᵹhund. Bruccus, ræcc. c1200Ormin 13505 Rihht alls an hunnte takeþþ der Wiþþ hise ȝæpe racchess. c1275Serving Christ 71 in O.E. Misc. 92 Þe ronke racches þat ruskit þe ron. 1390Gower Conf. II. 274 Brocours that renne aboute Lich unto racches in a route. 1433Lydg. St. Edmund ii. 881 With blast of hornys, with rachchis & with houndys. c1440Promp. Parv. 422/1 Ratche, hownde, odorinsecus. 1526Skelton Magnyf. 592 Here is a leysshe of ratches to renne a hare. c1570Satir. Poems Reform. xviii. 23 Throw out this Realme lyke Ratches se ȝe range. 1576Fleming tr. Caius' Eng. Dogges (1880) 7 Albeit some of this sort in English be called Brache, in Scottishe Rache, the cause hereof resteth in the shee sex and not in the generall kinde. [16022nd Pt. Return fr. Parnass. ii. v. 873 Small Ladies puppies, raches, and Bastards.] a1733Ramsay Highland Lassie iv, With cockit gun and ratches tenty, To drive the deer out of their den. 1829Scott Demonol. iv. 131 Three raches, or hounds of scent, followed her closely. 1875J. Veitch Tweed 56 By her side seven raches running free.
transf.1597J. Melvill Diary (1842) 428 Craftie men..Wha houndit furthe these ratches under night.
Comb.1732Macfarlane Geneal. Coll. (1900) 306 Three Wolves Heads erased supported by two Ratch hounds.
Hence † ratchet (? after brachet from brach).
1563Becon Acts Christ & Antichr. Wks. III. 400 Antichrist hunteth the wilde dere..with houndes and ratchettes ronning.
▪ II. rache, ratch, n.2 Obs. exc. dial.|reɪtʃ, rætʃ|
Forms: 6 ratche, 6–8 rache, 8 raich, 7, 9 rach, 9 dial. raitch, ratch. See also reach.
[Of obscure etym.; cf. race n.5 and rake n.2]
A (white) line or streak down a horse's face.
1523Fitzherb. Husb. (1598) §68 Of markes..a white snyp, or a white rache is good. Ibid., A blacke Horse, so he haue white feet, white ratche, and white feather. 1558Wills & Inv. N.C. (Surtees 1835) 173 My blacke geldinge hauing a white Rache in his forehead. 1610Markham Masterp. i. x. 27 A blacke with white starre, white rache or white foote. 1689N. Riding Rec. VII. 99 One bay guelding with..a white rache down his face. 1725Lond. Gaz. No. 6403/3 A black Filly,..with a Raich down her face. 1811Sporting Mag. XXXVII. 135 He is a good chesnut, no white, except a rach down his face. 1833New Sporting Mag. V. 278/2 A dingy looking bay filly, with a great white ratch down her face. 1855Robinson Whitby Gloss., Raitch, a white line down a horse's face.
▪ III. † rache, v.1 Obs. rare.
[Of obscure origin.]
intr. and refl. ? To hasten, make ready in haste.
a1400–50Alexander 1239 Meliager with hys men..rachen with þair route & ryden bott a while. Ibid. 2031 Alexander..Rachez hym radly to ride.
▪ IV. † rache, v.2 Obs.—1
[a. OF. racher, aphetic f. arracher arrache.]
trans. To pull off.
c1400Laud Troy Bk. 5689 His hed was bare, his helme was rached.
▪ V. rache
obs. f. reach v. |