recheat

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English

Etymology

Probably from Anglo-Norman; compare Old French racheter (rally).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɹɪˈt͡ʃiːt/
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Noun

recheat (plural recheats)

  1. (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.
    • 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
      [] but that I will have a recheat winded in my forehead, or hang my bugle in an invisible baldrick, all women shall pardon me.
    • 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. , volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. , →OCLC:
      ”Prior, that last flourish on the recheat hath added fifty crowns to thy ransom, for corrupting the true old manly blasts of venerie.”

Verb

recheat (third-person singular simple present recheats, present participle recheating, simple past and past participle recheated)

  1. (obsolete) To blow the recheat.

Usage notes

  • According to the Poly-Olbion project, Drayton's is the last recorded use as a verb.

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