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Webster 1913 Edition


Recheat

Re-cheat′

(rē̍-chēt′)
,
Noun.
[F.
requêté
, fr.
requêter
to hunt anew. See
Request
.]
(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.
To blow the recheat.

Definition 2024


recheat

recheat

English

Noun

recheat (plural recheats)

  1. (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)

  1. (archaic) To blow the recheat.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Drayton to this entry?)

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