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kinch, n. Sc.|kɪnʃ|
Also 6– kinsch, kinsh, 9 kench.
[In sense 1, a parallel form to kink n.1: cf. benk, bench, etc. Sense 3 may be unconnected.]
1. A loop or twist on a rope or cord, esp. the loop of a slip-knot; a noose.
a1800Surv. Moray Gloss. (Jam.), Kinsch, a cross rope capped about one stretched along and tightening it. 1808–80Jamieson, Kinsch, the twist or doubling given to a cord or rope, by means of a short stick passed through it, in order to draw it tighter. 1828Moir Mansie Wauch xix. 280 Having fastened a kinch of ropes beneath her oxters. 1844Cross Disruption xxviii. (E.D.D.), I hae maist got my neck intil a kinch for my pains. 1861M'Levy Curios. Crime Edinburgh, Handcuffs 29, I put his right hand into the kench.
2. fig. A catch, hold, advantage. ? Obs.
1635D. Dickson Pract. Wks. (1845) I. 78 Everyone seeking a kinsh of his neighbour. a1800Surv. Moray Gloss. (Jam.), Kinsch, an advantage unexpectedly obtained.
†3. ? (One's) lot. Obs.
a1600Montgomerie Cherrie & Slae 1100 The man may ablens tyne a stot That cannot count his kinsch. ― Sonn. xxxvii, I can not chuse; my kinsh is not to cast. 1606W. Birnie Kirk-Buriall (1833) 11 Our Heroik burials are oft led like a martiall triumphe..But alas, if in death we could count our just kinsh, we might rather dismay and feare.
Hence kinch v., (a) (see quot. 1808–18); (b) to put a string noose on the tongue of (a horse), in order to exercise control over it.
1808–18Jamieson, To Kinsch, to twist and fasten a rope. 1864W. D. Latto Tammas Bodkin xxvi. (E.D.D.), The tooth cud be easily pu'd oot by means o a rosety string, kinched roon the root o't. 1891Scot. Leader 17 Apr. 5 The cruelty attached to ‘Kinching’ a pit pony..to hold that kinching in no cases should be resorted to. |