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▪ I. cletch, n. dial.
Also clatch.
[f. cleck v.: cf. bake, batch, etc. Cf. clutch n.2]
A brood, a hatching (of chickens); contempt. a family.
1691Ray N.C. Words, Cletch, a Brood: as, a Cletch of Chickens. 1802Paley Nat. Theol. Wks. 1830 IV. 161 Ten, fifteen, or twenty young birds may be produced in one cletch or covey. 1855Robinson Whitby Gloss., ‘A cletch of chickens’. 1858Bailey Age 147 You and your tribe will form a numerous clatch Some day, I take it, about Colney Hatch. 1868E. Waugh Sneck-bant i. 7 in Lanc. Gloss., A clatch of ducks. 1877Holderness Gloss., ‘He cums of a bad cletch’. 1880Lanc. Gloss., Clatch, clutch.
▪ II. cletch, v.
var. cleach or clitch, to clutch, or snatch.
1612Pasquil's Night-Cap (1877) 30 So long the flye doth at the candle cletch, That in conclusion she her wings doth burne. |