Scotch
[skɒtʃ] or [skɑtʃ]
Definition
(noun.) whiskey distilled in Scotland; especially whiskey made from malted barley in a pot still.
(verb.) make a small cut or score into.
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Definition
(a.) Of or pertaining to Scotland, its language, or its inhabitants; Scottish.
(n.) The dialect or dialects of English spoken by the people of Scotland.
(n.) Collectively, the people of Scotland.
(v. t.) To shoulder up; to prop or block with a wedge, chock, etc., as a wheel, to prevent its rolling or slipping.
(n.) A chock, wedge, prop, or other support, to prevent slipping; as, a scotch for a wheel or a log on inclined ground.
(v. t.) To cut superficially; to wound; to score.
(n.) A slight cut or incision; a score.
Typist: Remington
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Cut (slightly), wound (superficially).[2]. Stop (as a wheel to prevent it from rolling back), block.
a. Scottish.
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Definition
adj. pertaining to Scotland its people language customs products &c.—also Scot′tish Scots.—n. the dialect of English spoken in Lowland Scotland: (coll.) Scotch whisky.—ns. Scotch′-hop a child's game: hop-scotch; Scotch′man Scots′man a native of Scotland.—Scotch amulet a British geometrid moth; Scotch and English the boys' game of prisoner's base; Scotch barley pot or hulled barley; Scotch bluebell the harebell; Scotch bonnets the fairy-ring mushroom; Scotch broth broth made with pot-barley and plenty of various vegetables chopped small; Scotch cap the wild black raspberry; Scotch catch or snap the peculiarity in Scotch music of the first of two tones played to the same beat being the shorter; Scotch curlies a variety of kale; Scotch fir or pine the only species of pine indigenous to Britain valuable for its timber turpentine tar &c.; Scotch kale a variety of kale; Scotch mist a mist like fine rain; Scotch pebbles varieties of agate and jasper; Scotch thistle the national emblem of Scotland.
n. a strut or drag for a wheel.—v.t. to prop or block with such.—n. Scote a prop.—v.t. to stop or block.
v.t. to cut or wound slightly: to notch.—n. a notch scratch.—n. Scotch′ing a method of dressing stone with a pick.—Scotched-collops or (erroneously) Scotch-collops beef-steaks fried with onions.
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Examples
- No, but I am Scotch and crazy. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Oh, they were brave little beasts, these wild Scotch bullocks, wild and fleecy. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- In the new town of Edinburgh, built within these few years, there is not, perhaps, a single stick of Scotch timber. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- It is a mixture of hop-scotch and shuffleboard played with a crutch. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- To use a Scotch word, every thing looked more 'purposelike. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The temporary relief, however, which this bank afforded to those projectors, proved a real and permanent relief to the other Scotch banks. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- She was given to the care of a faithful Scotch woman who had once been our servant. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- The snake is scotched, but is not dead, Beware! Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
Edited by Astor