Sc. Obs. Also 6 cachepuyll, -pill, -spale, caichpule, kaichspell, 7 catchpule. [app. corrupt form of MFlem. caetsespeel, 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. Ibid. (1563), 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.
