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 ." }}

Noun

(es)

A ratchet wheel; a toothed wheel engaging a detent or pawl.