queach
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Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /kwiːt͡ʃ/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -iːtʃ
Noun
[edit]queach (plural queaches)
- (archaic) A thick, bushy plot; a thicket.
- 1567, Arthur Golding, Ovid's Metamorphoses: the first booke, lines 137–8:
- Men gan to shroud themselves in house. Their houses were the thickes,
And bushie queaches, hollow caves, or hardels made of stickes.
- 1614–1615, Homer, “The Nineteenth Book of Homer’s Odysseys”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume II, London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC:
- They found they lodged a boar of bulk extreme,
In such a queach as never any beam
References
[edit]- “queach”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.