cratch

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points: 13
Words With Friends: 14
Letters: 6

Pronunciation

/kɹæt͡ʃ/

Definition of cratch

4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

(obsolete)To scratch.

“A good pair of nails to cratch and claw.”

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verb

(obsolete)To scratch.

“A good pair of nails to cratch and claw.”

noun

(obsolete)A grated crib or manger.

“Begin from first where He encradled was, / In simple cratch, wrapt in a wad of hay.”
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.

“The fore-end of the cargo space terminates in a triangular board, called the cratch, raised to the same height as the cabin roof and connected to it […]”
A swelling on a horse's pastern, under the fetlock.

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Etymology

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From Middle English cratchen, cracchen (“to scratch”), alteration of *cratsen (“to scratch”), from Old Norse *kratsa or Middle Low German kratsen, krassen (“to scratch”), both ultimately from Old High German krazzōn, crazōn (“to scratch”), from Proto-Germanic *krattōną (“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”), and Albanian gërresë (“rasp, scraper”).

Words you can make from cratch

26 playable · top: CATCH (12 pts)

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Front

SCRATCH 14 pts

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