An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language / in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals

by John Jamieson

CH.

Words, of Goth. origin, whether S or E., beginning with ch, sounded hard, are to be traced to those in the Germ. or Northern languages that have k, and in A. S. c, which has the same power with k.

To CHACK, v. n. To clack, to make a clinking noise, S.
Cleland.

To CHACK, v. a. To cut or bruise any part of the body by a sudden stroke; as when the sash of a window falls on the fingers, S.

E. check. Teut. kack-en, kek-en, increpare; synon. S. B. [Chat], q. v.

CHACK, CHATT, s. A slight repast, taken hastily, S.

Q. a check for hunger.

CHACK, CHECK, s. The Wheat-ear, a bird, Orkn. Motacilla oenanthe, Linn.
V. [Stane-Chacker].
Barry.

Nearly the same with the last part of its Germ. name, stein schwaker.

CHACKARALLY, s. Apparently some kind of checkered or variegated cloth.
Watson's Coll.