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▪ I. kench, n.1|kɛnʃ|
[Special sense of kench, canch, current in various dialects with the senses of ‘slice, cut, section, etc.’ See Eng. Dial. Dict. s.v. Canch.]
A strip or slice of an arable field containing a number of furrows.
1799J. Robertson Agric. Perth 62 The first deviation from run-rig was by dividing the farms into kavels or kenches, by which every field..was split down into as many lots as there were tenants.
▪ II. kench, n.2 U.S.|kɛnʃ|
[perh. the same as prec.]
A rectangular bin or box used for salting seal-skins: a box used in salting and packing fish.
1874C. M. Scammon Marine Mammals 161 The [seal] skins are all taken to the salt-houses, and are salted in kenches, or square bins. 1887Fisheries U.S. Sect, v. II. 370 Sliding planks, which are taken down and put up in the form of deep bins, or boxes—kenches, the sealers call them. 1897R. Kipling Capt. Cour. 122 The silvery-gray kenches of well-pressed fish mounted higher and higher in the hold.
▪ III. † kench, v. Obs. rare.
[repr. OE. *cęncean:—*kankjan, from the root kank-, found in OE. ᵹecanc mock, gibe, cancęttan to laugh noisily, cackle, cank, Icel. kank gibing, kankast to jeer; the ablaut-grade *kink- is the base of chink v.1 and kink v.1]
intr. To laugh loudly.
c1225Leg. Kath. 2042 Þer me mahte iheren..þe cristene kenchen and herien þen healent. c1230Hali Meid. 17 Hu..te deoueles hoppen & kenchinde beaten hondes to-gederes.
▪ IV. kench
variant of kinch, noose. |