Middle English Dictionary Entry
rechās n.(1)
Entry Info
| Forms | rechās n.(1) Also rechace, rechaise. |
| Etymology | ?AF; cp. ME rechāte n. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
A hunting call on a horn calling back or summoning together the hounds, a recheat; also, the calling together of the hounds; also fig.
Associated quotations
- (c1410) York MGame (Vsp B.12)95 : If þe lymner may se hym he shal blowe a moot and rechace.
- (c1410) York MGame (Vsp B.12)96 : He shuld..blowe a moot and rechace and þan halowe to þe houndes to come forth wiþ alle.
- c1425 Twiti Venery(1) (Vsp B.12)152 : Than shall y blowe on this maner a mote, and aftirward the rechace [F cornay ieo un moot e rechatay] upon my houndys that be past the boundys.
- c1440(a1400) Awntyrs Arth.(Thrn)62 : Thus þies gomes þay ga, in grevys so grene, And boldly blawes rechayse [Dc: rechas; Ir: a rechase].
- (a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)683/1 : Of hym [Tristram] we had fyrst all the termys of hawkynge..and all the blastis that longed to all maner of game: fyrste to the uncoupelynge, to the sekynge..to the rechace, to the flyght, to the deth.
- c1475 Wisd.(Folg V.a.354)908 : Wy art þou creature so onkynde, Thus to defoule Godys own place?..Thou hast made þe Deullys rechace.
- a1500 Awntyrs Arth.(Dc 324)58 : The huntes þei halowe, in hurstes and huwes, And bluwe rechas ryally, þei rane to þe ro.