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SCOTCH, v.t.

To support, as a wheel, by placing some obstacle to prevent its rolling. Our wagoners and cartmen scot the wheels of their wagons and carts, when in ascending a hill they stop to give their team rest, or for other purpose. In Connecticut, I have generally heard this word pronounced scot, in Massachusetts, scotch.
1913 Definition
Scotch (scotch)
a.(?)
Scotch
[Cf. Scottish.]
  1. Of or pertaining to Scotland, its language, or its inhabitants; Scottish.

    Scotch broom (Bot.), the Cytisus scoparius. See Broom. -- Scotch dipper, or Scotch duck (Zoöl.), the bufflehead; -- called also Scotch teal, and Scotchman. -- Scotch fiddle, the itch. [Low] Sir W. Scott. -- Scotch mist, a coarse, dense mist, like fine rain. -- Scotch nightingale (Zoöl.), the sedge warbler. [Prov. Eng.] -- Scotch pebble. See under pebble. -- Scotch pine (Bot.) See Riga fir. -- Scotch thistle (Bot.), a species of thistle (Onopordon acanthium); -- so called from its being the national emblem of the Scotch.

  2. The dialect or dialects of English spoken by the people of Scotland.
  3. Collectively, the people of Scotland.
  4. To shoulder up] to prop or block with a wedge, chock, etc., as a wheel, to prevent its rolling or slipping.
  5. A chock, wedge, prop, or other support, to prevent slipping; as, a scotch for a wheel or a log on inclined ground.
  6. To cut superficially; to wound; to score.

    We have scotched the snake, not killed it. Shak.

    Scotched collops (Cookery), a dish made of pieces of beef or veal cut thin, or minced, beaten flat, and stewed with onion and other condiments; -- called also Scotch collops. [Written also scotcht collops.]

  7. A slight cut or incision; a score.
    Walton.

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