cratchとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

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”).

動詞

cratch (三人称単数 現在形 cratches, 現在分詞 cratching, 過去形および過去分詞形 cratched)

1. (obsolete) To scratch.

   A good pair of nails to cratch and claw.

参照

• An historical dictionary

語源 2

From Middle English cratche, cracche, crecche (“crib”), from Old French creche (“crib, manger”), from Frankish *krippjā, *kribbjā (“crib”), from Proto-Germanic *kribjǭ. More at creche, crib.

名詞

cratch (複数形 cratches)

2. (obsolete) A grated crib or manger.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, A Hymne of Heavenly Love:

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

3. (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.
   • 1966, Gervis Frere-Cook, The decorative arts of the mariner:

     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 […]

派生語

• cratch cradle

名詞

cratch (複数形 cratches)

1. A swelling on a horse's pastern, under the fetlock.