scatch

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] French escache.

Noun

scatch (plural scatches)

1. A kind of bit for the bridle of a horse.

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2. (obsolete, UK, dialect) A stilt.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “scatch”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)