noun a slight cut or incision; a score.
2. scotch ·noun collectively, the people of scotland.
3. scotch ·noun the dialect or dialects of english spoken by the people of scotland.
4. scotch ·adj of or pertaining to scotland, its language, or its inhabitants; scottish.
5. scotch ·vt to cut superficially; to wound; to score.
6. scotch ·vt to shoulder up; to prop or block with a wedge, chock, ·etc., as a wheel, to prevent its rolling or slipping.
7. scotch ·noun a chock, wedge, prop, or other support, to prevent slipping; as, a scotch for a wheel or a log on inclined ground.