recheat
English edit
Etymology edit
Probably from Anglo-Norman; compare Old French racheter (“rally”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
recheat (plural recheats)
- (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[ward] 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 edit
recheat (third-person singular simple present recheats, present participle recheating, simple past and past participle recheated)
- (obsolete) To blow the recheat.
- 1612, Michael Drayton, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [John Selden], editor, Poly-Olbion. Or A Chorographicall Description of Tracts, Riuers, Mountaines, Forests, and Other Parts of this Renowned Isle of Great Britaine, […], London: […] H[umphrey] L[ownes] for Mathew Lownes; I. Browne; I. Helme; I. Busbie, published 1613, →OCLC, page 216:
- Rechating with his horne, which then the Hunter cheeres,
Whilst still the lustie Stag his high-palm’d head up-beares,
Usage notes edit
- According to the Poly-Olbion project[1], Drayton's is the last recorded use as a verb.