Lexicographical Neighbors of Gaunch
Literary usage of Gaunch
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)
"T> • the gaunch, f SOme Great men who ... with the Grand Signior, dead. was brought
to the gaunch, ledde or the ..."
2. Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"... presently upon the gaunch, being led from the Ser- *¥ Amba"a~ raglio halfe a
mile or more before hee was put thereon/ selfe went Not long before that, ..."
3. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"A dialectal (Scotch) variant of gain' for going. gallon, qv] l. A gallon ;
especially, 12 pounds of butter. [Prov. Eng.] — 2. A email tub or gaunch ' ..."
4. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"By reason of that torment he presently upon the gaunch, being led from the Ser-
being starke 1111 ri -n dead. was brought to the ..."
5. Hill-side and Border Sketches: With Legends of the Cheviots and the Lammermuir by William Hamilton Maxwell, John Leech, George S. Measom (1847)
"He dares not venture to bite the shepherd; but " he gaes unco' near it, for whiles
he maks a gaunch* at the plaid, and whiles at the breeks. ..."
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