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▪ I. cleach, cleech, v. Obs. exc. dial.|kliːtʃ|
In 3–5 cleche. pa. tense 3 clahte, clachte; pa. pple. 3 claht.
[ME. cleche, corresp. to the northern cleek (which has also in pa. tense and pple. claȝt, claucht), appears to go back to an unrecorded OE. *clǽc(e)an, *clǽhte (cf. bepǽcan, rǽcan, tǽcan, and their subsequent history). Its relation to clitch, clutch is doubtful.]
1. intr. To clutch. (Const. to, toward.)
a1225Ancr. R. 102 Hweðer þe cat of helle claurede [v.r. clachte, clahte] euer toward hire, & cauhte, mid his cleafres, hire heorte heaued? c1325E.E. Allit. P. B. 634 Clechez to a clene cloþe & kestez on þe grene.
2. trans. To clutch, grasp, lay hold of, seize.
a1300Geste K. Horn (Ritson) 961 (Mätz.) Ne mihte ich him never cleche, With nones kunnes speche. a1310in Wright Lyric P. 37 Ant bede clenyen [? clengen] ther y hade claht. c1325E.E. Allit. P. B. 12 If þay in clannes be clos, þay cleche gret mede. a1500MS. Cantab. Ff. v. 48 lf. 82 (Halliw.) Thus wolde he cleche us with his hande, With his fyngers on rawe. 1879G. F. Jackson Shropsh. Word-bk., Cleach, to clutch.
3. trans. and intr. To lift (water, etc.) in the hollow of the hand, or with any shallow vessel.
c1320Cast. Love 734 Ne dar he seche non oþer leche, Þat mai riht of þis water cleche. c1420Pallad. on Husb. v. 158 And bees the welles haunte and water cleche. 1879G. F. Jackson Shropsh. Word-bk., Cleach..to lade out [water, etc.] in a skimming kind of way, so as not to disturb the bottom.
▪ II. cleach, n. dial.
[This may be merely the vb.-stem in combination; but the word may possibly be identical with ME. cleche, in the Ancren Riwle: see cleche.]
In comb. cleach-net, ‘a hand-net, similar to a shrimping-net, used in shallow, muddy waters, to catch ‘pinks’ [minnows], or other small fish’. Miss Jackson, Shropsh. Word-bk. (1879). Cf. next. |