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Definition of Potched
1. potche [v] - See also: potche
Lexicographical Neighbors of Potched
Literary usage of Potched
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1894)
"These things are all potched together.' Pour [pou-ur], va To pour. Common.
Power, sb. A great deal, a great quantity, a great number. ..."
2. A Warwickshire Word-book: Comprising Obsolescent and Dialect Words by G. F. Northall (1896)
"These things are all potched together.' Pour [pou-ur], va To pour. Common.
Power, sb. A great deal, a great quantity, a great number. ..."
3. Salopia Antiqua: Or, An Enquiry from Personal Survey Into the 'druidical by Charles Henry Hartshorne (1841)
"potched the pikel in his leg i the quern harrast." Isl. pota, acu pungere. Swed.
pota; Fr. pacher, digito vel instrumento ..."
4. Tales of My Landlord by Walter Scott, Jedidiah Cleishbotham, Robert Morton (1820)
"... especially in the rear; for the passage of the main body, in many instances,
potched up the swamps through which they passed, and rendered them so deep, ..."
5. Aids to Reflection: In the Formation of a Manly Character, on the Several by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, James Marsh (1829)
"... unknown but necessary supplement or integration of the Cartesian Notion of
Body) has potched up the Flaw, I leave for more competent Judges to decide. ..."
6. An Itinerary Containing His Ten Yeeres Travell Through the Twelve Dominions by Fynes Moryson (1908)
"And at the table, perhaps one man hath a hen, another a piece of flesh, the third
potched egges, and each man severall meat after his ..."
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