Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In hunting, a melody which the huntsman winds on the horn to call back the dogs from a wrong course, or to call them off at the close of the hunt; a recall on the horn.
- In hunting, to play the recheat; call back the hounds by the tones of the recheat on the horn.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To blow the recheat.
- noun (Sporting) A strain given on the horn to call back the hounds when they have lost track of the game.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun archaic A series of notes blown on a
horn as a signal inhunting . - verb archaic To
blow the recheat.
Etymologies
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Examples
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That a woman conceived me, I thank her; that she brought me up, I likewise give her most humble thanks: but that I will have a recheat winded in my forehead, or hang my bugle in an invisible baldrick, all women shall pardon me.
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The Lord Boteler commanded the horns again to sound the recheat, in hopes to call in the stragglers, and said to Fitzallen: “Methinks St. Clere, so distinguished for service in war, should have been more forward in the chase.”
Waverley 2004
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That a woman conceived me, I thank her; that she brought me up, I likewise give her most humble thanks: but that I will have a recheat winded in my forehead, or hang my bugle in an invisible baldrick, all women shall pardon me.
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--- Prior, that last flourish on the recheat hath added fifty crowns to thy ransom, for corrupting the true old manly blasts of venerie. ''
Ivanhoe 1892
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The Lord Boteler commanded the horns again to sound the recheat, in hopes to call in the stragglers, and said to Fitzallen, ` ` Methinks
The Waverley 1877
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The time of meeting was appointed at six in the morning, beyond the gate of the outer barricade; and the chase was declared to be ended in the afternoon, when the _recheat_ should be blown beneath the great oak, known by the name of Sholto's Club, which stood a remarkable object, where Douglas Dale was bounded by several scattered trees, the outskirts of the forest and hill country.
Waverley Novels — Volume 12 Walter Scott 1801
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The Lord Boteler commanded the horns again to sound the recheat, in hopes to call in the stragglers, and said to Fitzallen:
Waverley Walter Scott 1801
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Lord Boteler commanded the horns again to sound the recheat, in hopes to call in the stragglers, and said to Fitzallen, 'Methinks
Waverley — Volume 1 Walter Scott 1801
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Lord Boteler commanded the horns again to sound the recheat, in hopes to call in the stragglers, and said to Fitzallen, 'Methinks
Waverley — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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That a woman conceived me, I thank her; that she brought me up, I likewise give her most humble thanks: but that I will have a recheat winded in my forehead, or hang my bugle in an invisible baldrick, all women shall pardon me.
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