单词 | cleach |
释义 | cleachn. dialect. Categories » cleach-net n. ‘a hand-net, similar to a shrimping-net, used in shallow, muddy waters, to catch ‘pinks’ [minnows], or other small fish’. G. F. Jackson, Shropshire Word-bk. (1879). Cf. cleach v. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online September 2018). cleachcleechv. Obsolete exc. dialect. 1. intransitive. To clutch. (Const. to, toward.) ΘΚΠ the world > movement > absence of movement > hold or holding > hold or grip [verb (intransitive)] > lay hold > suddenly or forcibly cleach?c1225 cleekc1380 clutch1865 ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 81 Hweðer þe cat of helle clachte [a1250 Titus clahte, a1250 Nero claurede] eauer hire towart. & lachte eauer hire wið his cleaures hire heorte he haueð. c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) l. 634 Clechez to a clene cloþe & kestez on þe grene. 2. transitive. To clutch, grasp, lay hold of, seize. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > absence of movement > hold or holding > hold [verb (transitive)] > lay hold of or grasp i-fangc888 gripc950 repeOE befongOE keepc1000 latchc1000 hentOE begripec1175 becatchc1200 fang?c1200 i-gripea1225 warpa1225 fastenc1225 arepa1250 to set (one's) hand(s onc1290 kip1297 cleach?a1300 hendc1300 fasta1325 reachc1330 seizec1374 beclipc1380 takea1387 span1398 to seize on or upon1399 getc1440 handc1460 to catch hold1520 to take hold1530 to lay hold (up)on, of1535 grasple1553 to have by the backa1555 handfast1562 apprehend1572 grapple1582 to clap hold of1583 comprehend1584 graspa1586 attach1590 gripple1591 engrasp1593 clum1594 to seize of1600 begriple1607 fast hold1611 impalm1611 fista1616 to set (one's) hand to1638 to get one's hands on1649 ?a1300 Geste K. Horn (Ritson) 961 (Mätz.) Ne mihte ich him never cleche, With nones kunnes speche. a1350 in G. L. Brook Harley Lyrics (1968) 40 Ant bede cleuyen [? read clengen] þer y hade claht. c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) l. 12 If þay in clannes be clos, þay cleche gret mede. a1500 MS. Cantab. Ff. v. 48 lf. 82 (Halliw.) Thus wolde he cleche us with his hande, With his fyngers on rawe. 1879 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. Cleach, to clutch. 3. transitive and intransitive. To lift (water, etc.) in the hollow of the hand, or with any shallow vessel. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > raising > raise [verb (intransitive)] > lift or remove by lifting > lift up out of a body of liquid cleachc1320 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > raising > make to go up or cause to rise [verb (transitive)] > lift or take up > out of a body of liquid cleachc1320 dip1602 clitch1632 c1320 Cast. Love 734 Ne dar he seche non oþer leche, Þat mai riht of þis water cleche. c1420 Pallad. on Husb. v. 158 And bees the welles haunte and water cleche. 1879 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. Cleach..to lade out [water, etc.] in a skimming kind of way, so as not to disturb the bottom. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.v.?c1225 |
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