Definition of Kench

1. a bin for salting fish [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Kench

kempe
kemped
kemper
kempers
kemping
kempings
kempite
kemple
kemples
kemps
kempt
kempty
ken
kenaf
kenafs
kench (current term)
kenches
kendi
kendis
kendo
kendos
kendrin
kened
kenhsuite
kening
kenned
kennel
kennel coal
kennel cough
kenneled

Literary usage of Kench

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1887)
"(8) a slice cut out of a haystack " A whole kench " is cut across the whole breadth of the stack; " half a kench" across half its breadth. ..."

2. Transactions of the Philological Society by Philological Society (Great Britain). (1901)
"kench, 'to sprain.' Munching, ' idling or loafing about. ... Dunch, 'suet dumpling." Hunch, ' lump of bread," etc. kench, ' to bank. ..."

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