recheat
English
Etymology
Probably from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Lua error in Module:parameters at line 239: Parameter 1 should be a valid language code; the value "xno" is not valid. See WT:LOL.; compare Old French racheter (“rally”).
Pronunciation
Noun
recheat (plural recheats)
- (archaic) A series of notes blown on a horn as a signal in hunting to call back the hounds when they have lost track of the game.
- 1598, "… but that I will have a recheat winded in my forehead, or hang my bugle in an invisible baldrick, all women shall pardon me." — William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
- 1819, ”Prior, that last flourish on the recheat hath added fifty crowns to thy ransom, for corrupting the true old manly blasts of venerie.” — Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
Verb
recheat (third-person singular simple present recheats, present participle recheating, simple past and past participle recheated)
- (archaic) To blow the recheat.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Drayton to this entry?)