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▪ I. sleech, n. dial.|sliːtʃ|
Also 8–9 sleetch, Sc. sleitch.
[app. a later form of slitch.]
1. Mud deposited by the sea or a river; soil composed of this.
1587Fleming Contn. Holinshed III. 1540/1 Wher the slub or sleech is fifteene foot deepe at the least, and the maine rocke immediatlie vnderneath it. 1623Tract Parlt. in Hartlib's Legacy (1655) 288 Then would all..the barren lands [be] mended by Marle, Sleech, Lime, Chalk, Seasand, and other means. c1682J. Collins Making of Salt 19 The Ground..ought to be a Sea-Mud, Oase or Sleech. 1764Museum Rust. II. 103 As the sea left the marshes by degrees, the tides brought up the mud with them..; which mud we call sleech. 1799J. Robertson Agric. Perth 298 The soil is composed of a heavy, moist sleech. 1844Ld. Cockburn Circuit Journ. 27 Sept. (1888) 254 But when the sea..shrinks back, what a change! It becomes a world of sleech. 1899G. Neilson Annals of Solway 44 The salty particles glittering on the sleech like hoar frost.
2. A stretch of mud on a shore.
1902Scotsman 11 Feb. (E.D.D.), There were near Bo'ness wide expanses of flat muddy foreshore, known as ‘sleeches’, or ‘slob-lands’,..covered at high tide.
Hence ˈsleechy a., slimy, muddy.
1792Statist. Acc. Scotl. IV. 138 A very flat, clay or sleetchy shore. 1844Ld. Cockburn Circuit Journ. 27 Sept. (1888) 254 Dismal swamps of deep sleechy mud. 1877G. Fraser Wigtown 192 The lands, fishings, sleechy grounds, and shores mentioned in the summons.
▪ II. sleech, v. Cheshire dial.|sliːtʃ|
[Of obscure origin.]
(See quot.)
1674Ray N.C. Words 43 To Sleech, to dip or take up water. [Hence in Grose, etc.]. 1886–7in Cheshire glossaries.
Hence ˈsleeching-net (see quot. 1886).
1665Chesh. Farm Accs. in Sheaf (1882) II. 333 For the iron frame for the sleeching nett. 1886Holland Cheshire Gloss., Sleeching-net, a net fixed at the end of a long pole, for catching fish. |