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cratch

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To scratch.
  • noun A grated crib or manger.
  • noun A rack or open framework.
  • noun In astronomy, the star-cluster known as Præsepe (the Manger) in the constellation Cancer.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete A manger or open frame for hay; a crib; a rack.
  • noun a representation of the figure of the cratch, made upon the fingers with a string; cat's cradle; -- called also scratch cradle.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb obsolete To scratch.
  • noun obsolete A grated crib or manger.
  • noun nautical The vertical planks at the forward end of the hold of a traditional English narrowboat which constrain the cargo and support the top plank or walkway.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Middle English cratchen, cracchen ("to scratch"), alteration of *cratsen (“to scratch”), from North Germanic *kratsa or Middle Low German kratsen, krassen ("to scratch"), both ultimately from Old High German krazzōn, crazōn ("to scratch"), from Proto-Germanic *krattōnan (“to scratch”), from Proto-Indo-European *gred-, *grod- (“to scratch, scrape”). Cognate with Icelandic krota ("to engrave"). Compare also Icelandic krassa ("to scrawl"), Danish kradse ("to scratch, scrape, claw"), Swedish kratsa ("to scratch"), Dutch kratsen ("to scratch"), German kratzen ("to scratch").

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Middle English cratche, cracche, crecche ("crib"), from Old French creche ("crib, manger"), from Frankish *krippja (“crib”), akin to Old High German crippa, cripha ("crib"). More at creche, crib.

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Examples

  • And this fits with the analogy of the "cratch" which does not disappear merely because the Blessed Mother put our Lord in it.

    Why Should I Even Respond? 2007

  • To the cratch we may well liken the husk or outward symbols of it.

    Archive 2007-02-01 2007

  • The cause of the communication is the presence of Christ in the elements Christ in the cratch; Christ in the Sacrament4 which is communicated by means of what transformation took place at consecration.

    Archive 2007-06-01 2007

  • The cause of the communication is the presence of Christ in the elements Christ in the cratch; Christ in the Sacrament4 which is communicated by means of what transformation took place at consecration.

    Hooker, Andrewes, Aquinas and Transubstantiation 2007

  • To the cratch we may well liken the husk or outward symbols of it.

    Why Should I Even Respond? 2007

  • Andrewes (and many other Anglican theologians) does not take this view, but speaks instead of Christ's nature being instantiated (my interpretation) in the bread and wine of the Eucharist, like the nature of Christ was instantiated in person of Jesus in the cratch (to follow Andrewes analogy).

    Why Should I Even Respond? 2007

  • For Christ in the Sacrament is not altogether unlike Christ in the cratch.

    Archive 2007-02-01 2007

  • For Christ in the Sacrament is not altogether unlike Christ in the cratch.

    Why Should I Even Respond? 2007

  • I immediately headed over to my favorite news search engine, Google cratch, and typed in "New York Syrup".

    Archive 2005-10-01 Michelle Collins 2005

  • I immediately headed over to my favorite news search engine, Google cratch, and typed in "New York Syrup".

    Leggo My Wallet! Michelle Collins 2005

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synonyms (2)

Words with the same meaning

  1. crib
  2. rack

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