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▪ I. thrutch, n. Now dial.|θrʌtʃ|
Forms: 4 þrich, 5 thricche, thrich, 7– thrutch.
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An act of ‘thrutching’; a thrust, push, press, squeeze; also, concr. a narrow gorge or ravine (local).
13..Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 1713 Þer þre þro [hounds] at a þrich þrat hym [a fox] at ones. c1400Destr. Troy 12752 Þan entrid this Engist,..And, with a thricche in the throte, throtlet the kyng. c1425Wyntoun Cron. v. iv. 606 [It] gert hym offt in thrichis [v.rr. thrystis, thryftis] thraw. 1678Ray Prov. (ed. 2) 302 Maxfield measure, heap and thrutch [cf. thrust n. 1]. 1855E. Waugh Lanc. Life (1857) 33 The last sylvan stronghold of the fairies; where they would remain impregnable, haunting wild ‘thrutches’ and sylvan ‘chapels’, in lonely deeps of its cloughs and woods. 1881Westall Old Factory xi. I. 150 Try what a good thrutch..will do first.
▪ II. thrutch, v. Now dial.|θrʌtʃ|
Forms: α. 1 þryccan, 4–5 thricche, þrich(e. β. 3 þrucche, 6, 8 thruch, 6– thrutch. pa. tense and pple. 1 þryhte, þryht, 4 þryȝt, 4–5 thricchet, thrucchit; 5 thright.
[OE. þrycc(e)an = OHG. drucchen (MHG., G. drücken) to press,:—WGerm. *þrukkjan, nominal vb. f. *þrukki-, whence OHG. druck (MHG. druc, G. druck) pressure.]
1. trans. To press, squeeze, crush; to crowd, throng; fig. to oppress.
c888K. ælfred Boeth. iv, Sittað manfulle on heahsetlum, and haliᵹe under heora fotum þrycað. 13..E.E. Allit. P. A. 17 Þat dotz bot þrych my hert þrange. Ibid. B. 135 He fande..A þral þryȝt in þe þrong unþryuandely cloþed. c1400Destr. Troy 13461 Mony holes in the howses..Ouer⁓growen with..thornes, Euyn thestur and thicke thricchet of wode. c1440Anc. Cookery §438 in Househ. Ord. (1790) 471 When hit is sothen, thricche oute the water. 1546Coverdale Treat. Lord's Supp. Transl. Pref. A iij, Thrutchyng vp into a corner yt parte whiche no place can conteyne. c1746J. Collier (Tim Bobbin) View Lanc. Dial. 1 Yet I'm war thrutcht, between two arran Rogues. 1888Sheffield Gloss., Thrutch, to thrust, to squeeze.
b. spec. To press (cheese).
1688R. Holme Armoury iii. viii. 335/1 Thruch them in the Cheese-Fate. 1818Wilbraham Cheshire Gloss. 29 Squeezing or pressing the cheese is called thrutching it.
2. To thrust, push.
c1205Lay. 19483 He wænde mid his crucche us adun þrucche. 13..E.E. Allit. P. A. 705 He..dyed Delfully þurȝ hondez þryȝt. 13..Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 1443 For þre at þe fyrst þrast he þryȝt to þe erþe. c1400Destr. Troy 6732 He..wan to the knight, And xxx in the throng thrucchit to dethe. a1500Chester Pl. x. 406 When they their spears throughe him thright. 1885Cheshire Gloss. s.v., I'st be thrutched off here.
3. intr. To push or press into a place; to jostle.
[a1000Guthlac (Exeter Bk.) 285 We þas wic maᵹun fotum afyllan, folc in ðriceð meara þreatum and monfarum.] c1837in Stephens Mem. R. Durnford (1899) 75 ‘Thrutch him up’ shouted some..malcontents at a..vestry meeting [at Middleton, Lancs.]... ‘Thrutch away, gentlemen’, replied the young Rector, jumping on to an oak chest. 1848T. Blezard Westmoreld. Songs 35 (E.D.D.) At last we thrutch'd into th' Ship Inn.
Hence ˈthrutching vbl. n. (in quot., squeezing, wringing); also concr. (in pl.): see quot. 1885. ˈthrutcher, Lancash.: see quot. 1901.
c1400Destr. Troy 1522 All his wongys were wete for weping of teres,..with thricching of hondys. c1746J. Collier (Tim Bobbin) View Lanc. Dial. Wks. (1862) 68, I stown a lyte Wetur-podditch, an some Thrutchings. 1885Cheshire Gloss., Thrutchings, whey which is thrutched or squeezed out whilst the cheese is under pressure. 1901F. E. Taylor Folk-Sp. S. Lancs. (E.D.D.), Thrutcher, specially applied to the pushers of a rush-cart, and to the boys who push the corves in a coal-pit. |