recheat
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.
Noun
- 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.
- [B]ut that I vvill haue a rechate vvinded in my forehead, or hang my bugle in an inuiſible baldricke, all vvomen ſhall pardon mee: becauſe I vvill not doe them the vvrong to miſtruſt any, I vvill doe my ſelfe the right...
- Prior, that last flourish on the recheat hath added fifty crowns to thy ransom, for corrupting the true old manly blasts of venerie. - 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume...
Origin
Probably from Anglo-Norman; compare Old French racheter (“rally”).
Forms
Verb
- To blow the recheat.
- Rechating with his horne, which then the Hunter cheeres, Whilst still the lustie Stag his high-palm’d head up-beares, - 1612, Michael Drayton, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [John Selden], editor, Poly-Olbion. Or A...