▪ I. † rotch Sc. Obs.
In 6 roche, rotche.
[Of obscure origin. For later examples see ratch n.1 1.]
A gun or gun-barrel.
| 1571 Bannatyne Jrnl. (1806) 147 There was in her..thre or foure last of powder, some crosletis, and roches of small ordinance. 1598 Reg. Privy Council Scot. V. 438 Sic peceis as salbe of the lenth of ane elne in the rotche at the leist. |
▪ II. rotch(e
variants of roche n.1