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Cratch   Listen
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Cratch  n.  A manger or open frame for hay; a crib; a rack. (Obs.) "Begin from first where He encradled was, In simple cratch, wrapt in a wad of hay."
Cratch cradle, a representation of the figure of the cratch, made upon the fingers with a string; cat's cradle; called also scratch cradle.






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... whom this present writing shall come, Simon, the Son of Mary, sendeth greeting in our Lord, ... having special and singular devotion to the Church of the glorious Virgin at Bethelem, where the same Virgin brought forth our Saviour incarnate, and lying in the Cratch,[58] and with her own milk nourished; and where the same child to us being born, the Chivalry of the Heavenly Company sange the new hymne, Gloria in excelsis Deo ... a new Starre going before them. In the ...
— Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles • Daniel Hack Tuke



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