carritch

English

Noun

carritch (plural carritches)

1. (Scotland, chiefly in the plural) A catechism.
   • 1818, Sir Walter Scott, The heart of Midlothian:

     "Do sae, minister — do sae," cried Madge; "I am as weel worth looking at as ony book in your aught. — And I can say the single carritch, and the double carritch, and justification, and effectual calling, and the assembly of divines at Westminster, that is," (she added in a low tone) " I could say them anes -- but it's lang syne -- and ane forgets, ye ken."

   • 1870, Edwin Paxton Hood, The Peerage of Poverty:

     Can I forget how lang and weel The carritches ye made me read ?

   • 1902, James Matthew Barrie, The Little White Bird:

     Christily is a most faithful young woman with a face as red and lush as a rasp, who knows her carritches both ways, and has such a reverence for ministers that she looks upon me more as an edifice than a mortal.