Definition/Meaning of cratch

• English - Verb: cratch (third-person singular simple present cratches, present participle cratching, simple past and past participle cratched) (obsolete) To scratch . A good pair of nails to cratch and claw.
• English - Noun: cratch (plural cratches) (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. 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…
• English - Etymology: Etymology 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-West Germanic *krattōn (“to scratch”), ultimately of uncertain, likely onomatopoeic origin, and/or derived from Proto-Indo-European…
• English - Pronunciation: IPA: /kɹæt͡ʃ/ Rhymes: -ætʃ
• English - Derived terms: cratch cradle