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单词 cletch
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cletchn.

Forms: Also clatch.
Etymology: < cleck v.: compare bake , batch , etc. Compare clutch n.2
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.

Etymology: Either a variant of cleach v. or a variant of clitch v.
intransitive. Perhaps: to clutch, to snatch; = cleach v. 1 or clitch v. 4.
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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).
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