Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cratch

/kɹæt͡ʃ/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: cratch
IPA: /kɹæt͡ʃ/

13

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

1

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

Obsolete

noun

A grated crib or manger.

Obsolete

noun

The vertical planks at the forward end of the hold of a traditional English narrowboat which constrain the cargo and support the top plank or walkway.

noun

A swelling on a horse's pastern, under the fetlock.

Example Sentences

"A good pair of nails to cratch and claw."
"Begin from first where He encradled was, / In simple cratch, wrapt in a wad of hay."
"The fore-end of the cargo space terminates in a triangular board, called the cratch, raised to the same height as the cabin roof and connected to it […]"

Etymology

From Middle English cratchen, cracchen (“to scratch”), alteration of *cratsen (“to scratch”), from Old Norse *kratsa or Middle Low German kratsen, krassen (“to scratch”), both ultimately from Old High German krazzōn, crazōn (“to scratch”), from Proto-Germanic *krattōną (“to scratch”), from Proto-Indo-European *gred-, *grod- (“to scratch, scrape”). Cognate with Icelandic krota (“to engrave”). Compare also Icelandic krassa (“to scrawl”), Danish kradse (“to scratch, scrape, claw”), Swedish kratsa (“to scratch”), Dutch kratsen (“to scratch”), German kratzen (“to scratch”), and Albanian gërresë (“rasp, scraper”).

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: cratchen, *kratsa, kratsen, krazzōn, *krattōną, *gred-

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

cratches (present, singular) cratching (participle, present) cratched (participle, past) cratched (past) cratches (plural)

Phrases

cratch cradle

Rhymes With

match catch patch scratch batch hatch dispatch attach bach snatch rematch latch

Questions

How do you pronounce cratch?: The recorded pronunciation is /kɹæt͡ʃ/.
What does cratch mean?: To scratch.
Where does cratch come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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