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Definition of Ganched
1. ganch [v] - See also: ganch
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ganched
Literary usage of Ganched
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hakluytus Posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"... street: of the Citie, they brought him to the place of execution, and there
ganched him on a great Iron hooke, suffering him so to hang till he died. ..."
2. Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"... having carried him in this pitifull manner through the principall streets of
the Citie, they brought him to the place of execution, and there ganched ..."
3. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"*Sef in the earth to the neck, and then stoned: the ganched hang on the hooke
divers dayes till they take them downe and stone them. ..."
4. Throne-makers by William Roscoe Thayer (1899)
"Ever since -that time, the messengers of truth have been stoned, and burned, and
ganched, and crucified; yet their message has been delivered, ..."
5. The Testament of John Davidson by John Davidson (1908)
"... throat unstopped Pealed out the diapason of all woe : Chronos with Rhea, Baal
with Ashtaroth, Woden with Freya, such espousal had, In couples ganched, ..."
6. Hakluytus Posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"... street: of the Citie, they brought him to the place of execution, and there
ganched him on a great Iron hooke, suffering him so to hang till he died. ..."
7. Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"... having carried him in this pitifull manner through the principall streets of
the Citie, they brought him to the place of execution, and there ganched ..."
8. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"*Sef in the earth to the neck, and then stoned: the ganched hang on the hooke
divers dayes till they take them downe and stone them. ..."
9. Throne-makers by William Roscoe Thayer (1899)
"Ever since -that time, the messengers of truth have been stoned, and burned, and
ganched, and crucified; yet their message has been delivered, ..."
10. The Testament of John Davidson by John Davidson (1908)
"... throat unstopped Pealed out the diapason of all woe : Chronos with Rhea, Baal
with Ashtaroth, Woden with Freya, such espousal had, In couples ganched, ..."
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