Word Meanings - RECHEAT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A strain given on the horn to call back the hounds when they have lost track of the game.

Related words: (words related to RECHEAT)

• STRAINABLE
  1. Capable of being strained. 2. Violent in action. Holinshed.
• TRACKLAYER
  Any workman engaged in work involved in putting the track in place. -- Track"lay`ing, n.
• STRAINING
  from Strain. Straining piece , a short piece of timber in a truss, used to maintain the ends of struts or rafters, and keep them from slipping. See Illust. of Queen-post.
• TRACKWALKER
  A person employed to walk over and inspect a section of tracks.
• TRACKMAN
  One employed on work on the track; specif., a trackwalker.
• STRAINED
  1. Subjected to great or excessive tension; wrenched; weakened; as, strained relations between old friends. 2. Done or produced with straining or excessive effort; as, his wit was strained.
• TRACK-ROAD
  A towing path.
• GIVEN
  p. p. & a. from Give, v.
• STRAINT
  Overexertion; excessive tension; strain. Spenser.
• STRAIN
  1. Race; stock; generation; descent; family. He is of a noble strain. Shak. With animals and plants a cross between different varieties, or between individuals of the same variety but of another strain, gives vigor and fertility to the offspring.
• TRACKAGE
  The act of tracking, or towing, as a boat; towage.
• TRACK
  The entire lower surface of the foot;-said of birds, ect. 4. A road; a beaten path. Behold Torquatus the same track pursue. Dryden. 5. Course; way; as, the track of a comet. 6. A path or course laid out for a race, for exercise, ect. (more info)
• TRACKER
  In the organ, a light strip of wood connecting a key and a pallet, to communicate motion by pulling. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, tracks or pursues, as a man or dog that follows game. And of the trackers of the deer Scarce half the
• TRACKWAY
  Any of two or more narrow paths, of steel, smooth stone, or the like, laid in a public roadway otherwise formed of an inferior pavement, as cobblestones, to provide an easy way for wheels.
• TRACKSCOUT
  See TRACKSCHUYT
• TRACKLESS
  Having no track; marked by no footsteps; untrodden; as, a trackless desert. To climb the trackless mountain all unseen. Byron. -- Track"less*ly, adv.-Track"less*ness, n.
• STRAINABLY
  Violently. Holinshed.
• STRAINER
  1. One who strains. 2. That through which any liquid is passed for purification or to separate it from solid matter; anything, as a screen or a cloth, used to strain a liquid; a device of the character of a sieve or of a filter; specifically, an
• TRACKMASTER; ROADMASTER
  One who has charge of the track; --called also roadmaster.
• RESTRAINABLE
  Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
• DISTRAINER
  See DISTRAINOR
• HALF-STRAINED
  Half-bred; imperfect. "A half-strained villain." Dryden.
• CONSTRAINTIVE
  Constraining; compulsory. "Any constraintive vow." R. Carew.
• RESTRAINEDLY
  With restraint. Hammond.
• SUPERSTRAIN
  To overstrain. Bacon.
• TRICKTRACK
  An old game resembling backgammon.
• UNSTRAINED
  1. Not strained; not cleared or purified by straining; as, unstrained oil or milk. 2. Not forced; easy; natural; as, a unstrained deduction or inference. Hakewill.
• CONSTRAINED
  Marked by constraint; not free; not voluntary; embarrassed; as, a constrained manner; a constrained tone.
• UNRESTRAINT
  Freedom from restraint; freedom; liberty; license.
• RESTRAIN
  restringere, restrictum; pref. re- re- + stringere to draw, bind, or 1. To draw back again; to hold back from acting, proceeding, or advancing, either by physical or moral force, or by any interposing obstacle; to repress or suppress; to keep down;
• RESTRAINMENT
  The act of restraining.
• FORGIVENESS
  1. The act of forgiving; the state of being forgiven; as, the forgiveness of sin or of injuries. To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses. Dan. ix. 9. In whom we have . . . the forgiveness of sin. Eph. i. 7. 2. Disposition to pardon;