cratch

/kɹæt͡ʃ/

Etymology

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”).

cratch means to scratch. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 88 out of 100.

cratch is pronounced /kɹæt͡ʃ/.

verb

To scratch.“A good pair of nails to cratch and claw.”

noun

A grated crib or manger.“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.“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 […]”
A swelling on a horse's pastern, under the fetlock.