Noun

(en noun)

The act of one who chases another; a pursuit.

A hunt.

(uncountable) A children's game where one player chases another.

* 1996 , Marla Pender McGhee, Quick & Fun Learning Activities for 1 Year Olds (page 25)

Some children like to be caught when playing chase , and others do not.

* 2009 , Martin J. Levin, We Were Relentless: A Family's Journey to Overcome Disability (page 41)

So we played chase up and down the concourses of the airport.

(British) A large country estate where game may be shot or hunted.

Anything being chased, especially a vessel in time of war.

* Shakespeare

Nay, Warwick, seek thee out some other chase , / For I myself must hunt this deer to death.

(nautical) Any of the guns that fire directly ahead or astern; either a bow chase or stern chase.

(real tennis) The occurrence of a second bounce by the ball in certain areas of the court, giving the server the chance, later in the game, to "play off" the chase from the receiving end and possibly win the point.

(real tennis) A division of the floor of a gallery, marked by a figure or otherwise; the spot where a ball falls, and between which and the dedans the adversary must drive the ball in order to gain a point.

Noun

(en noun)

(printing) A rectangular steel or iron frame into which pages or columns of type are locked for printing or plate making.

Noun

(en noun)

A groove cut in an object; a slot: the chase for the quarrel on a crossbow.

(architecture) A trench or channel for drainpipes or wiring; an hollow space in the wall of a building containing ventilation ducts, chimney flues, wires, cables or plumbing.

The part of a gun in front of the trunnions.

The cavity of a mold.

(shipbuilding) A kind of joint by which an overlap joint is changed to a flush joint by means of a gradually deepening rabbet, as at the ends of clinker-built boats.

Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete) Passage, route.

# (obsolete) One's journey or route.

# (obsolete) A passage through difficult terrain; a mountain pass or route vulnerable to ambush etc.

#* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.1:

But when she saw them gone she forward went, / As lay her journey, through that perlous Pace [...].

# (obsolete) An aisle in a church.

Step.

# A step taken with the foot.

# The distance covered in a step (or sometimes two), either vaguely or according to various specific set measurements. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement : English Customary Weights and Measures, © Russ Rowlett and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (§: Distance , ¶ ? 6)

Even at the duel, standing 10 paces apart, he could have satisfied Aaron’s honor.

I have perambulated your field, and estimate its perimeter to be 219 paces .

Way of stepping.

# A manner of walking, running or dancing; the rate or style of how someone moves with their feet.

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# Any of various gaits of a horse, specifically a 2-beat, lateral gait.

Speed or velocity in general.

(cricket) A measure of the hardness of a pitch and of the tendency of a cricket ball to maintain its speed after bouncing.

The collective noun for donkeys.

* 1952 , G. B. Stern, The Donkey Shoe , The Macmillan Company (1952), page 29:

but at Broadstairs and other places along the coast, a pace of donkeys stood on the sea-shore expectant (at least, their owners were expectant) of children clamouring to ride.

* 2006 , " Drop the dead donkeys", The Economist , 9 November 2006:

A pace of donkeys fans out in different directions.

* 2007 , Elinor De Wire, The Lightkeepers' Menagerie: Stories of Animals at Lighthouses , Pineapple Press (2007), ISBN 9781561643905, page 200:

Like a small farm, the lighthouse compound had its chattering'' of chicks, ''pace'' of donkeys, ''troop'' of horses, and ''fold of sheep.

Noun

(en noun)

Easter.