单词 | ganch |
释义 | † ganchn. Obsolete. 1. The apparatus employed in the execution of criminals by ganching; the punishment itself. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > [noun] > by impaling > apparatus for ganch1625 1625–6 S. Purchas Pilgrimes ii. 1623 By reason of that torment hee died presently upon the Gaunch. 1686 J. Scott Christian Life: Pt. II II. vii. 684 Scorch their tender parts with fires, and rake their bowels with Spikes and Gaunches. 1718 J. Ozell tr. J. Pitton de Tournefort Voy. Levant I. 72 The Gaunch is a sort of Estrapade, usually set up at the City-gates. The Executioner lifts up the Criminal by means of a pully, and then letting go the rope, down falls the wretch among a parcel of great iron flesh-hooks. 1770 H. Brooke Fool of Quality (Dublin ed.) V. xvii. 320 I would rather suffer the Gaunch, than [etc.]. 2. A gash or wound made by a boar's tusk. (Cf. ganch v. 2) archaic. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > [noun] > wound > wound by goring ganch1819 cornada1932 1819 W. Scott Bride of Lammermoor viii, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. I. 234 I have heard my father say..that a wild-boar's gaunch is more easily healed than a hurt from the deer's-horn. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online December 2020). † ganchv. Obsolete. 1. transitive. To impale (a person) upon sharp hooks or stakes as a mode of execution. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > execute [verb (transitive)] > by impaling ganch1615 1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey i. 66 The offending woman they drowne, and the man they gansh. 1655 Massacres in Piedmont 35 They gaunched many..after the Turkish manner. 1690 J. Dryden Don Sebastian iii. ii. 63 Take him away, ganch him, impale him, rid the World of such a Monster. 1718 J. Ozell tr. J. Pitton de Tournefort Voy. Levant I. 72 If a Cain happens to be taken they give him no quarter, he is either impal'd or gaunch'd. 1768 H. Brooke Fool of Quality III. xvi. 196 In about five days after a convict was to be gaunched. 2. Of a boar: To tear or gash with the tusk (in past participle ganched). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > [verb (transitive)] > to wound with tusk (of boar) gore?1530 ganch1621 1621 G. Sandys tr. Ovid First Five Bks. Metamorphosis iii. 67 Fierce Saluage, [a dog] lately ganched by a Bore. a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry V ccv, in Poems (1878) IV. 152 One, ganch't i' th' flanke, breakes with a Restive Scorne; And claps his Crest through. 1783 Ainsworth's Thes. Linguæ Latinæ (new ed.) iv. at Adonis Being gaunched by a boar's tusks, he died in the bloom of his youth. DerivativesΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > [noun] > by impaling ganching1614 society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > sharp weapon > [adjective] > cutting or piercing piercinga1400 stabbing1600 hacking1602 flesh-transpiercing1609 ganching1614 griding1667 slashing1950 the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > [adjective] > wounded > cut > cutting hacking1602 ganching1614 1614 W. Davies True Relation Trauailes sig. Biijv Their ganshing is after this manner: He sitteth vpon a wall, being five fadomes high..right vnder the place where he sits, is a strong Iron hooke fastned, being very sharpe; then is he thrust off the wall vpon this hooke with some part of his body, and there he hangeth sometimes two or three daies before he dieth. 1626 G. Sandys tr. Ovid Metamorphosis viii. 158 The dogs he [a boar] wounds with ganching blowes. 1684 T. Smith in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 14 443 For any hainous crime against the Government either Gaunching or excoriation, or cutting off the legs and arms. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < |
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