Achate vs Chate - What's the difference?
achate | chate |
(obsolete) Purchase; bargaining.
(in the plural, obsolete) Purchases; provisions bought for a household, cates.
* , II.ix:
(Scotland) To cheat.
* {{quote-book, year=1899, author=Horatio Alger, Jr., title=Paul the Peddler, chapter=, edition=
, passage="You want to chate me!" said Teddy, angrily.}}
* {{quote-book, year=1875, author=Horatio Alger, title=The Young Outlaw, chapter=, edition=
, passage=I'm up to your tricks, you young spalpeen, thryin' to chate a poor widder out of her money."}}
* {{quote-book, year=1866, author=Oliver Optic, title=Hope and Have, chapter=, edition=
, passage="But ye better beg than chate me out of me honest dues.}}
* {{quote-book, year=1873, author=Various, title=The World's Greatest Books, Vol VI., chapter=, edition=
, passage=But they'll murdher my boy when they find out the chate ," said Mrs. Rooney. "}}
(Scotland) Cheat.
* {{quote-book, year=1885, author=Grace Greenwood, title=Stories and Legends of Travel and History, for Children, chapter=, edition=
, passage=With that, he began to swear and call me a chate , and threaten me with the police.}}
* {{quote-book, year=, author=Mayne Reid, title=The Ocean Waifs, chapter=, edition=
, passage=That there's been chatin' yez are all agreed; only yez can't identify the chate .}}
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As nouns the difference between achate and chate
is that achate is while chate is castle.achate
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) . See cates.Noun
(en noun)- The kitchin Clerke, that hight Digestion, / Did order all th’Achates in seemely wise, / And set them forth, as well he could deuise.
Etymology 2
Anagrams
* ----chate
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