Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A spot or stain; also, a trick.
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- noun obsolete A
spot orstain . - noun obsolete A
trick .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Trees, of colour betwixt a yealow and tawny, passing well turned and fashioned, couered ouer with greene Veluet, and bowlstered with some soft stuffe or feathers easie to sit vpon, the Veluet brought downe to the frame of the Settles or Benches, and fastened to the same with tatch
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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Glasse's Cookery Book_, and I still remember the roars of laughter that went up when I read out a famous sentence in my childish way: "First tatch your hair."
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, January 26, 1916 Various 1898
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"Oh, I fordot!" and, taking off one of the silvery slippers, Cinderella planted it carefully in the middle of the stage, said to Rob, "Now you must try and tatch me," and ran away, while the Prince, picking up the shoe, obediently trotted after her.
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"Oh, I fordot!" and, taking off one of the silvery slippers, Cinderella planted it carefully in the middle of the stage, said to Rob, "Now you must try and tatch me," and ran away, while the Prince, picking up the shoe, obediently trotted after her.
Little Men Louisa May Alcott 1860
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"You omadhawn," said he to Traynor, "I was only puttin 'up a dozen o' bottles into the tatch of the house, when you thought I was listenin ';" and, as a proof of the truth of this, he brought them out, and showed them some bottles of poteen, neatly covered up under the thatch.
The Hedge School; The Midnight Mass; The Donagh Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831
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Towards evening, the king of Jedo sent me two suits of varnished armour, as a present to our king; and sent likewise for myself a _tatch_ and a _waggadash_, the former being a long sword which is only worn in Japan by soldiers of the highest rank, and the latter being a singular weapon resembling a Welsh hook.
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McSporran! "he hissed in a loud eager whisper," Jes '' awk t 'im? ... gort th' real reg'mental tatch 'as old Kissiwasti! ain't he? "
The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police Ralph S. Kendall
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"I always wanted to tatch a whale, and this is a baby one, I fink.
Jack And Jill Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888 1902
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"I always wanted to tatch a whale, and this is a baby one, I fink.
Jack and Jill Louisa May Alcott 1860
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