These are the meanings of the letters PATCHCOCK when you unscramble them.
- Acock (adv.)
In a cocked or turned up fashion.
- Catch (n.)
A humorous canon or round, so contrived that the singers catch up each other's words.
- Catch (n.)
A slight remembrance; a trace.
- Catch (n.)
Act of seizing; a grasp.
- Catch (n.)
Passing opportunities seized; snatches.
- Catch (n.)
Something desirable to be caught, esp. a husband or wife in matrimony.
- Catch (n.)
That by which anything is caught or temporarily fastened; as, the catch of a gate.
- Catch (n.)
That which is caught or taken; profit; gain; especially, the whole quantity caught or taken at one time; as, a good catch of fish.
- Catch (n.)
The posture of seizing; a state of preparation to lay hold of, or of watching he opportunity to seize; as, to lie on the catch.
- Catch (v. i.)
To attain possession.
- Catch (v. i.)
To be held or impeded by entanglement or a light obstruction; as, a kite catches in a tree; a door catches so as not to open.
- Catch (v. i.)
To spread by, or as by, infecting; to communicate.
- Catch (v. i.)
To take hold; as, the bolt does not catch.
- Catch (v. t.)
Hence: To insnare; to entangle.
- Catch (v. t.)
To come upon unexpectedly or by surprise; to find; as, to catch one in the act of stealing.
- Catch (v. t.)
To communicate to; to fasten upon; as, the fire caught the adjoining building.
- Catch (v. t.)
To engage and attach; to please; to charm.
- Catch (v. t.)
To get possession of; to attain.
- Catch (v. t.)
To lay hold on; to seize, especially with the hand; to grasp (anything) in motion, with the effect of holding; as, to catch a ball.
- Catch (v. t.)
To reach in time; to come up with; as, to catch a train.
- Catch (v. t.)
To seize after pursuing; to arrest; as, to catch a thief.
- Catch (v. t.)
To seize with the senses or the mind; to apprehend; as, to catch a melody.
- Catch (v. t.)
To take captive, as in a snare or net, or on a hook; as, to catch a bird or fish.
- Catch (v. t.)
To take or receive; esp. to take by sympathy, contagion, infection, or exposure; as, to catch the spirit of an occasion; to catch the measles or smallpox; to catch cold; the house caught fire.
- chapt (unknown)
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- Chock (adv.)
Entirely; quite; as, chock home; chock aft.
- Chock (n.)
A heavy casting of metal, usually fixed near the gunwale. It has two short horn-shaped arms curving inward, between which ropes or hawsers may pass for towing, mooring, etc.
- Chock (n.)
A wedge, or block made to fit in any space which it is desired to fill, esp. something to steady a cask or other body, or prevent it from moving, by fitting into the space around or beneath it.
- Chock (n.)
An encounter.
- Chock (v. i.)
To fill up, as a cavity.
- Chock (v. t.)
To encounter.
- Chock (v. t.)
To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch; as, to chock a wheel or cask.
- Coach (n.)
A cabin on the after part of the quarter-deck, usually occupied by the captain.
- Coach (n.)
A first-class passenger car, as distinguished from a drawing-room car, sleeping car, etc. It is sometimes loosely applied to any passenger car.
- Coach (n.)
A large, closed, four-wheeled carriage, having doors in the sides, and generally a front and back seat inside, each for two persons, and an elevated outside seat in front for the driver.
- Coach (n.)
A special tutor who assists in preparing a student for examination; a trainer; esp. one who trains a boat's crew for a race.
- Coach (v. i.)
To drive or to ride in a coach; -- sometimes used with
- Coach (v. t.)
To convey in a coach.
- Coach (v. t.)
To prepare for public examination by private instruction; to train by special instruction.
- Coact (v. i.)
To act together; to work in concert; to unite.
- Coact (v. t.)
To force; to compel; to drive.
- coapt (unknown)
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- Patch (n.)
A block on the muzzle of a gun, to do away with the effect of dispart, in sighting.
- Patch (n.)
A paltry fellow; a rogue; a ninny; a fool.
- Patch (n.)
A piece of cloth, or other suitable material, sewed or otherwise fixed upon a garment to repair or strengthen it, esp. upon an old garment to cover a hole.
- Patch (n.)
A piece of greased cloth or leather used as wrapping for a rifle ball, to make it fit the bore.
- Patch (n.)
A small piece of anything used to repair a breach; as, a patch on a kettle, a roof, etc.
- Patch (n.)
A small piece of black silk stuck on the face, or neck, to hide a defect, or to heighten beauty.
- Patch (n.)
Fig.: Anything regarded as a patch; a small piece of ground; a tract; a plot; as, scattered patches of trees or growing corn.
- Patch (v. t.)
To adorn, as the face, with a patch or patches.
- Patch (v. t.)
To make of pieces or patches; to repair as with patches; to arrange in a hasty or clumsy manner; -- generally with up; as, to patch up a truce.
- Patch (v. t.)
To mend by sewing on a piece or pieces of cloth, leather, or the like; as, to patch a coat.
- Patch (v. t.)
To mend with pieces; to repair with pieces festened on; to repair clumsily; as, to patch the roof of a house.
- Poach (v. & n.)
To cook, as eggs, by breaking them into boiling water; also, to cook with butter after breaking in a vessel.
- Poach (v. & n.)
To rob of game; to pocket and convey away by stealth, as game; hence, to plunder.
- Poach (v. i.)
To become soft or muddy.
- Poach (v. i.)
To steal or pocket game, or to carry it away privately, as in a bag; to kill or destroy game contrary to law, especially by night; to hunt or fish unlawfully; as, to poach for rabbits or for salmon.
- Poach (v. t.)
To begin and not complete.
- Poach (v. t.)
To force, drive, or plunge into anything.
- Poach (v. t.)
To make soft or muddy by trampling
- Poach (v. t.)
To stab; to pierce; to spear, \\as fish.
- Thack ()
Alt. of Thacker