Sc. [f. prec., or of parallel formation.]
1. The act of chacking (in sense 1).
2. A ‘bite’ (of food); a snack.
1818. Scott, Rob Roy, xxiv. ‘[An] invitation to come back and take part o’ his family-chack, at ane preceesely.’ Ibid. (1824), Redgauntlet, Let. ix. He … gives a bit chack or dinner to his friends.
1830. Galt, Lawrie T., IV. x. (1849), 181. Take a chack of supper with us.
1852. Carlyle, Lett., 20 Sept. Glad to get to the inn … and there procure some chack of dinner.
3. A local name of the Wheat-ear, also called (from its note) Chack-bird, Chacker, STONE-CHACKER and CHECK.
1804. Tarras, Poems, 10 (Jam.). Death—trailt him aff i’ his dank car, As dead ’s a chackart.
1805. Barry, Orkney, 308 (Jam.). The White Ear—here denominated the chack.
Chack, Sc. f. CHECK v.
