Crossword-Solution: RATCHES 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Hemming, in which there is as little as possible of technical trigonometry.] _Meaning of Ratche._--In John Frith's _Antithesis_, published in 1529, he says: "The pope and bishops hunt the wild deer, the fox, and the hare, in their closed parks, with great cries, and horns blowing, with hounds and _ratches_ running." I should be glad to have the word _ratches_ satisfactorily explained.

But thay’d gotten reight an’ thout thay wur baan to hev no more trouble; but alas, it wur a mistak, for th’ mornin’ of th’ 14th o’ November an oud skyologer went aat a weather-gazin’ an’ planet-rulin, an’ woful news an’ bad omens he browt back wi him, for he sed at th’ Stars wur shoiting in an’ aat, An’ gravel ratches wur abaat, An’ th’ folk, he sed thay little knew Wat mischief it began to brew.

But they’d gotten reight and thout they wur bahn to hev no more trouble; but alas! it wur a mistak, for on th’ morning of the 14th o’ November an’ oud skyologer went aht a weather-gazin and planet-ruling, and woful news and bad omens he browt back wi’ him, for he sed at th’ Stars wur shoiting in and aht, And gravel ratches wur abaht, And th’ folk, he sed, they little knew What mischief it wur bahn ta brew.