cratch

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A grated crib or manger. obsolete
    — Begin from first where He encradled was, / In simple cratch, wrapt in a wad of hay.
  2. A swelling on a horse's pastern, under the fetlock.
  3. 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.
    — 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 […]
动词 v.
  1. To scratch. obsolete
    — A good pair of nails to cratch and claw.

词形变化

cratches present,singular,third-person cratching participle,present cratched participle,past cratched past cratches plural cratches plural

词汇关系

衍生词
cratch cradle

词源

词源 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”).
词源 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.
词源 3
From Etymology 1.
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