furchn.
/fəːtʃ/ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > family Cervidae (deer) > [noun] > body or parts of > hindquarters
fouchc1400
furch1491
1491 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 181 Item..till a man of the Chanslaris that brocht a furche of venyson to the King v s.
1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. xi. 91 My Heart, like the Furch of a Hart in Rut, doth beat within my Breast.
2. Veterinary Medicine. = frush n.2, frog n.2 Also attributive in furch-stay. [Apparently introduced by B. Clark, as a more etymologically correct substitute for the current forms. The French equivalent is fourchette.]
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > body or parts of horse > [noun] > hoof > substance inside hoof
frush1607
frog1610
furch1842
cushion1892
frog pad1908
1842 B. Clark On Running Frush (ed. 3) 2 The part diseased, and which in my Treatise on the Foot of the Horse published in 1809, I called the Furch-stay, as being the part which held the base of the Furch together.
1842 B. Clark On Running Frush (ed. 3) 3 This remarkable part was without any name and very little noticed, till I gave it the epithet Frog-stay or Furch-stay.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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