▪ I. † rechase, n. Obs.
Also 5 rechas, -chayse, 5, (7) -chace.
[Perh. ad. OF. *rachas, nom. of *rachat recheat n.]
= recheat n. (but in later quots. possibly associated with rechase v.1 2 a).
| c 1420 Venery de Tuety in Rel. Ant. I. 152 Than shall y⊇ blowe on this maner a mote, and aftirward the rechace upon my houndys that be past the boundys. c 1420 Anturs of Arth. 58 The huntes þei halowe, in hurstes and huwes, And bluwe rechas ryally. ? c 1475 Sqr. lowe Degre 772 To here the bugles there yblow,..And sevenscore raches at his rechase. 1634 Malory's Arthur ii. cxxxviii, All the blasts that long to all manner of games;..to the rechace [Caxton rechate] to the flight [etc.]. |
▪ II. reˈchase, v.1 Obs. exc. dial.
Also 5 rechasse, 5–6 rechace.
[a. F. rechasser (13th c.; OF. also rechacier, etc.): see re- and chase v.]
† 1. trans. To chase or drive back (an assailant); to chase in turn. Obs.
| c 1477 Caxton Jason 18 After..the worthy Jason had re⁓chaced his enmyes unto nyghe by the ooste. 1523 Ld. Berners Froiss. I. cccv. 458 These fortresses..made dyuers yssues and assautes on their neighbours, Somtyme chasyng and somtyme rechased agayne. 1614 Sylvester Bethulia's Rescue v. 358 One-while the Syrians by the Medes are chas't; Anon the Medes by Syrians are rechas't. |
| absol. 1609 Daniel Civ. Wars iv. xlvii, Then these assaile, then those rechase again. |
† b. To drive or force back (a thing). Obs.—1
| a 1533 Ld. Berners Gold. Bk. M. Aurel. (1546) Q vij, There is nothyng that more rechaceth the balle of the thought. |
2. † a. Hunting. To chase (a deer) back into the forest. Obs.
| c 1369 Chaucer Dethe Blaunche 39 Withynne a while the herte founde ys I-halowed and rechased faste Longe tyme. 1678 Phillips (ed. 4), To Rechace,..among Hunts⁓men is to make homewards, to drive back towards the place where the game was rouzed or started. 1727–41 Chambers Cycl. s.v. Rechacing, The keeping of running dogs to rechace the deer into the forests. |
b. To drive back (cattle or sheep) from one pasture to another.
| 1618 J. Wilkinson Courts Baron (1620) 147 If any tenant..doth vse in the Summer time or open time of the yeere,.. to bring Cattell from his other Farme into his farme within this Manor,..this is called chasing and rechasing. 1720 T. Wood Inst. Laws Eng. iv. i. 490 The Homage may also Enquire..Of Chasing Cattle into the Manor, and Re⁓chasing them. 1851 Dorset Gloss., Chase and re-chase, to drive sheep at particular times from one pasture to another. |
† c. To drive or course (horses) back over the same ground. Obs.
| 1607 Markham Caval. i. (1617) 54 Albe some Authors giue aduice to chase and rechase your Mares vp and downe the ground. Ibid. iii. 9 The best mettald Horses, if they be chaste and rechaste without..some incouragement, will by degrees growe worse and worse. |
† 3. intr. ? To be engaged in rechasing. Obs.—1
Perh. a transferred use of 2 a, suggested by the hunting sense of quest; but the correct reading may be theire chase is.
| c 1485 Digby Myst. v. 723 The queste of holborn come into this places, a-geyne the right euer thei rechases. |
Hence † reˈchaser; † reˈchasing vbl. n.1
| 1611 Florio, Riccacciamenti, rechasings. 1727–41 Chambers Cycl. s.v. Rechacing, Antiently there were offices of rechacers of the deers bestowed by the king on gentlemen, or old hunters. |
▪ III. † reˈchase, v.2 Obs. rare.
Also 5 -chace.
[var. of rechate recheat v., after rechase n.]
intr. To recheat. Hence † reˈchasing vbl. n.2
| c 1450 Master of Game (MS. Douce 335) xxxiii. lf. 60 He sholde rechace with oute long mote; for the mote shold neuer be blowe before this rechasyng. |