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Definition of Potching
1. potche [v] - See also: potche
Lexicographical Neighbors of Potching
Literary usage of Potching
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chapters on Papermaking by Clayton Beadle (1908)
"BEADLE, I have been unable to find any mention of potching in any English books
... An old workman, whose memory goes back sixty years, says that potching, ..."
2. Chapters on Papermaking by Clayton Beadle (1908)
"BEADLE, I have been unable to find any mention of potching in any English books
... An old workman, whose memory goes back sixty years, says that potching, ..."
3. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1902)
"potching, subs, (waiters?).—See quot. [Century: POTCH = an obsolete form of '
poach.'] 1883. Graphic^ 17 March, 283, 3. Good-natured customers may imagine ..."
4. Workshop receipts by Robert Haldane (1883)
"(4) For potching half-stuffs previously gas bleached, the quantities ...
The quantities of half-stuff filled into the potching engine should be uniform. ..."
5. American Library Edition of Workshop Receipts: Being a Complete Technical by Ernest Spon (1903)
"(4) For potching half-stuffs previously gas bleached, the quantities ...
The quantities of half-stuff filled into the potching engine should be uniform. ..."
6. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1909)
"The former he accuses of "hotch-potching" Scripture, "without use or edification";
the latter had drawn from ..."
7. Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"... as also when the wind blew, we met with a potching sea, which well informed
me, that we grew neare the length of the Head-land, and began to bring the ..."
8. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"... as also when the wind blew, we met with a potching sea, which well informed
me, that we grew neare the length of the Head-land, and began to bring the ..."
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