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单词 cleach
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cleachn.

Etymology: This may be merely the verb-stem in combination; but the word may possibly be identical with Middle English cleche , in the Ancren Riwle: see cleche n.
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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.

/kliːtʃ/
Forms: In Middle English cleche. past tense Middle English clahte, clachte; past participle Middle English claht.
Etymology: Middle English cleche , corresponding to the northern cleek v. (which has also in past tense and participle claȝt, claucht), appears to go back to an unrecorded Old English *clǽc(e)an, *clǽhte (compare bepǽcan, rǽcan, tǽcan, and their subsequent history). Its relation to clitch, clutch is doubtful.
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).
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