cratch

A truly historic game taught by children to each other, is what is called cats-cradle or cratch-cradle.

If Hone's derivation of the game and its meaning is true, cratch-cradle is the correct name.

Coiros are beeves fattened at the cratch in ox-stalls, or in the fresh guimo meadows.

If the taile of a wolfe be hung in the cratch of Oxen, they can never eat their meate.

It has not occupied a bacon-cratch or a bread-and-cheese cupboard.