scatch

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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noun

Obsolete

noun

British usage; Obsolete

"and thus, having brought your horse to a Post set up for that purpose, and one to assist you with a Rein fastened to the rings of a half Cannon Bit or a Scatch, you having mounted his back, let your assistant hold him to the post with his head facing it,"

From French escache, from Italian scaccia.

scatches (plural)

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