释义 |
queach Obs. exc. dial.|kwiːtʃ| Also 5 quech(e, 7 queich. [Of obscure etym.] A dense growth of bushes; a thicket (see also quot. 1825).
c1450Merlin xxvii. 540 Thei rode so longe till thei com in to a thikke queche in a depe valey. 1486Bk. St. Albans D j, When ye come to a wode or a quech of bushus. 1565Golding Ovid's Met. i. (1593) 4 Their houses were the thicks, And bushie queaches. 1653Sir W. Denny Pelecanicidium iii. ix. 7 Through furzie Queaches thou must goe. a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Queach, a plat of ground adjoining arable land, and left unploughed, because full of bushes or roots of trees. 1832L. Hunt Poems 198 Wood, copse, or queach. |