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Cratch vs Wratch - What's the difference?

cratch | wratch |

As nouns the difference between cratch and wratch

is that cratch is (obsolete) a grated crib or manger while wratch is (archaic).

As a verb cratch

is (obsolete) to scratch.

cratch

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) cratchen, .

Verb

(es)
  • (obsolete) To scratch.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) cratche, cracche, . More at (l), (l).

    Noun

    (cratches)
  • (obsolete) A grated crib or manger.
  • * Spenser
    • Begin from first where He encradled was, / In simple cratch , wrapt in a wad of hay.
  • (nautical) The vertical planks at the forward end of the hold of a traditional English narrowboat which constrain the cargo and support the top plank or walkway.
  • *1966 , Gervis Frere-Cook, The decorative arts of the mariner :
    • The fore-end of the cargo space terminates in a triangular board, called the cratch , raised to the same height as the cabin roof and connected to it [...]
    Derived terms
    * cratch cradle

    wratch

    English

    Noun

    (es)
  • (archaic)
  • *{{quote-book, year=1919, author=J. B. Salmond, title=My Man Sandy, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=I canna be bathered wi' the chatterin', fykie, kyowowin' little wratch . }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1903, author=William Barnes, title=Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Noo soul to sheaere The trials the poor wratch must bear. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1896, author=Ian Maclaren, title=Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=He said he wes up for a walk an' juist dropped in, the wratch .' }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1868, author=Alexander Hislop, title=The Proverbs of Scotland, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="Little Andrew, the wratch , has been makin' a totum wi' his faither's ae razor; an' the pair man's trying to shave himsel yonder, an' girnan like a sheep's head on the tangs." }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1855, author=Charles Kingsley, title=Westward Ho!, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Why, he's a praste, a Popish praste, that can't marry if he would, poor wratch ." }}