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▪ I. hanch, v. Now chiefly Sc.|hɑːnʃ, -æ-| Also 6 hantch, 7 haunsh, 9 hansh. [a. obs. F. hancher ‘to gnashe or snatch at with the teeth’ Cotgr.] trans. and intr. To snatch, snap at, or bite with violent or noisy action of the jaws; said of large dogs, wild beasts, cannibals, or greedy men.
a1400–50Alexander 774* Þar liggez lymmes of laddes, leggez and harmes..Som hanchyd of þe heued, som þe handez etyn. 1535Coverdale Ps. vii. 2 Lest he hantch vp my soule like a lyon. ― Isa. v. 29 They shal roare, and hanch vp the praye. a1662R. Baillie Lett. (1841) I. 252 A number greidilie hanshit at the argument..bot came not near the matter. 1808–25Jamieson, Hansh. 1834M. Scott Cruise Midge (1863) 38 Several men had been terribly torn by the Blood-hounds who..stood gasping and barking and hanching at us, at the entrance of the opening. Hence hanch, n. Sc., a voracious snap.
1808–18in Jamieson. 1880Antrim & Down Gloss. s.v., ‘The dog made a hanch at me.’ ▪ II. hanch, hanck obs. ff. haunch, hank. |