recheat means 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. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 77 out of 100.
Why this word is great
RECHEAT — [Noun] A specific series of notes sounded on a hunting horn to recall hounds from a lost scent. From Middle English, probably from Anglo-Norman, related to Old French *racheter* ('to rally, to recall'). Unlike the exuberant cry of 'tally-ho' upon sighting the quarry or the martial bluntness of a 'retreat' ordering general withdrawal, the recheat is a precise, formal admission within the ritual of venery. It is the horn's patient sigh through the thickening woods, the huntsman's concession over trampled bracken, the hounds turning from a cold trail—a disciplined regrouping against the wilderness's vast and silent mockery.
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 to truſt none: […]”
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,”