Recheat

Quick meaning: Recheat is a noun meaning (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.

Meaning

(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.

More Meanings

1. (obsolete) To blow the recheat.

Example Sentences

Rechating with his horne, which then the Hunter cheeres, Whilst still the lustie Stag his high-palm’d head up-beares,

Prior, that last flourish on the recheat hath added fifty crowns to thy ransom, for corrupting the true old manly blasts of venerie.

[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 to truſt none: […]

Word Forms

• recheats
• recheating
• recheated

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include rechate, horn, chevy, reboation, reak, fanfare.

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