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1736 J. Lewis Hist. Isle Tenet (ed. 2) Gloss. Culch, lumber, stuff.

1736 S. Pegge Alphabet of Kenticisms Culch, rags, bits of thread, and the like, such as mantua-makers litter a room with..it means, I find too, any rubbish.

1882 Standard 26 Sept. 2/2 The oyster dredgers are glad to give sixpence or sevenpence a bushel for them as ‘gulch’, to lay down to catch the ‘spat’.

1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Culch, broken crockery, oyster shells, and the usual siftings from an ash-pit.

1891 Jrnl. Amer. Folk-lore 4 159 This word, when applied to human beings, has a secondary sense of disgust. ‘He's a mean old culch!’ The epithet is the worst which can be used.

1893 N.E.D. at Culch Mod. (Essex), Culsh may be shot here.

1667 T. Sprat Hist. Royal-Soc. 307 The Spat cleaves to Stones, old Oyster-shells, pieces of Wood, and such like things, at the bottom of the Sea, which they call Cultch.

1774 E. Jacob Hist. Faversham 83 A dredge full of Cutch instead of oysters.

1863 C. R. Markham in Intellectual Observer IV. 424 Paved with stones, old shells, and any other hard substances..so as to form a bed for the oysters, which would be choked in soft mud. This material is called culch.

1891 W. K. Brooks Amer. Oyster 103 Oyster shells..form the most available cultch, and are most generally used.