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▪ I. keech, n. Obs. exc. dial.|kiːtʃ|
Also keach.
[Of obscure origin. Some mod. dialects (Wilts, Hants) have a vb. keech to congeal, consolidate (as fat). Sense 2 appears to be related to the root of kechel; but cf. quot. 1879 in 1.]
1. A lump of congealed fat; the fat of a slaughtered animal rolled up into a lump. Also dial. with other allied meanings.
In quot. 1613 referring to Cardinal Wolsey, as the son of a butcher. Tallow catch in 1 Hen. IV, ii. iv. 252 is explained by some editors as tallow keech.
[1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, ii. i. 101 Did not goodwife Keech the Butchers wife come in then?] 1613― Hen. VIII, i. i. 55, I wonder, That such a Keech can with his very bulke Take vp the Rayes o' th' beneficiall Sun, And keepe it from the Earth. [Cf. Steevens note (1778).] 1773Johnson in J. & Steevens' Shaks., Hen. VIII, ii. i, A keech is a solid lump or mass. A cake of wax or tallow formed into a mould is called yet in some places a keech. 1879G. F. Jackson Shropsh. Word-bk., Keech, a cake of consolidated fat, wax, or tallow. 1886Elworthy W. Som. Word-bk., Keech, the fat from the intestines of slaughtered animals; the caul. It is usually rolled up while warm into a solid lump.
2. (See quot. Cf. N. & Q. 9th s. VII. 94/2.)
1677Littleton Lat. Dict., Keech, a kind of Cake, collyra, libum. 1854A. E. Baker Northampt. Gloss., Keech, a large oblong or triangular pasty, made at Christmas of raisins and apples chopped together.
Hence keech v. dial. (see quots.).
1863Barnes Dorset Gloss., Ketch, Keach, to set hard, as melted fat cooling. 1879G. F. Jackson Shropsh. Word-bk., Keech, to consolidate, as warm fat, wax, etc. does in cooling. 1893Wilts. Gloss. s.v. Catch. Keach, Keatch, to grow thick, as melted fat when setting again.
▪ II. keech, keed
obs. ff. keach v., kid n.1 |