† cachespell, -pule Sc. Obs.
Also 6 cache-puyll, -pill, -spale, caichpule, kaichspell, 7 catchpule.
[app. corrupt form of MFlem. caetse-speel, f. caetse (= Fr. chasse, Eng. chase), Du. kaats place where the ball falls + speel play. The Flem. was evidently from a north. Fr. cache: cf. Picard cacher to chase.]
1. The game of tennis; also attrib.
| 1568 Woman's Truth in Sc. Pasquils (1868) 4 Ane handles man I saw but dreid, In caichpule faste playene. 1611 Rates (Jam.) Balles called Catchpule [1670 Tennis] balls the thousand viijl. 1818 G. Chalmers Life Q. Mary I. 255 Cachepole, or Tennis was much enjoyed by the prince. |
2. A tennis-court.
| 1526 Sc. Ld. Treasurer's Acc. in Pitcairn Crimin. Trials I. 271 Item, for ballis in Crummise cache-puyll. 1538 Aberdeen Registers XVI. (Jam.) The bigging of the said Alex'ris cachespale wall. 1563 Ibid. XXV. (Jam.) The fluir of his cachepill laitly biggit. 1597 Sc. Act Jas. VI (1814) 155 (Jam.) Orcherdis, yardis, doucattis, kaichspell, cloistour..cituat within the boundis..of the priorie..of Sanctandrois. |