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Webster 1913 Edition
Recheat
Re-cheat′
(rē̍-chēt′)
, Noun.
(Sporting)
A strain given on the horn to call back the hounds when they have lost track of the game.
Re-cheat′
,Verb.
I.
To blow the recheat.
Drayton.
Webster 1828 Edition
Recheat
RECHE'AT
,Noun.
Among hunters, a lesson which the huntsman winds on the horn when the hounds have lost the game, to call them back from pursuing a counter scent.
RECHE'AT
,Verb.
T.
Definition 2024
recheat
recheat
English
Noun
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.
- 1819, ”Prior, that last flourish on the recheat hath added fifty crowns to thy ransom, for corrupting the true old manly blasts of venerie.” — Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
Verb
recheat (third-person singular simple present recheats, present participle recheating, simple past and past participle recheated)
- (archaic) To blow the recheat.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Drayton to this entry?)