单词 | cletch |
释义 | cletchn. dialect. A brood, a hatching (of chickens); contempt. a family. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > genus Gallus (domestic fowl) > [noun] > member of (fowl) > young or chicken > brood peep1486 cletch1691 clutch1721 society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinship group > family > [noun] family1484 cletch1858 Holy Family1875 1691 J. Ray N. Country Words Cletch, a Brood: as, a Cletch of Chickens. 1802 W. Paley Nat. Theol. xii. 249 Ten, fifteen, or twenty young birds may be produced in one cletch or covey. 1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 32 ‘A cletch of chickens’. 1858 P. J. Bailey Age 147 You and your tribe will form a numerous clatch Some day, I take it, about Colney Hatch. 1868 E. Waugh Sneck-bant i. 7 in J. H. Nodal & G. Milnar Gloss. Lancashire Dial. (1875) A clatch of ducks. 1877 F. Ross et al. Gloss. Words Holderness ‘He cums of a bad cletch’. 1880 Lanc. Gloss. Clatch, clutch. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2021). cletchv. intransitive. Perhaps: to clutch, to snatch; = cleach v. 1 or clitch v. 4. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > absence of movement > hold or holding > hold [verb (transitive)] > lay hold of or grasp > suddenly or forcibly catcha1250 titc1330 beclapc1386 clutch1393 clitcha1400 cleekc1440 cletch1612 click1651 get1831 to seize hold of1839 1612 W. Fennor Cornu-copiæ 26 So long the flye doth at the candle cletch, That in conclusion shee her wings doth burne. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1691v.1612 |
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