keechn.
/kiːtʃ/ Obsolete exc. dialect.
1. A lump of congealed fat; the fat of a slaughtered animal rolled up into a lump. Also dialect with other allied meanings.In quot. 1623 referring to Cardinal Wolsey, as the son of a butcher. Tallow catch in 1 Henry IV, ii. v. 232 is explained by some editors as tallow keech.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > greasy or fatty material > [noun] > derived from animals > lump of
keech1623
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 ii. i. 96 Did not goodwife Keech the butchers wife come in then. View more context for this quotation]
1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII i. i. 55 I wonder, That such a Keech can with his very bulke Take vp the Rayes o' th' beneficiall Sun, And keepe it from the Earth.
1765 S. Johnson Plays of Shakespeare V. 378 A keech is a solid lump or mass. A cake of wax or tallow formed into a mould is called yet in some places a keech.
1879 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. Keech, a cake of consolidated fat, wax, or tallow.
1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Keech, the fat from the intestines of slaughtered animals; the caul. It is usually rolled up while warm into a solid lump.
2. (See quot. Cf. Notes & Queries 9th s. VII. 94/2.)
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > pastry > pasty > [noun] > types of pasty
dariole?a1400
sambouse1609
venison pastya1616
flapjack1620
stucklinga1655
apple pasty1664
keech1677
marrow pasty1696
flap-apple1750
pâté1768
hoglinga1825
bridie1833
empanada1866
Cornish pasty1877
pelmeni1926
tiddy oggy1942
oggy1948
stromboli1950
samosa1955
1677 A. Littleton Eng.–Lat. Dict. in Dictionarium Latino-Barbarum Keech, a kind of Cake, collyra, libum.
1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words I. 365 Keech, a large oblong or triangular pasty, made at Christmas of raisins and apples chopped together.
Derivatives
keech v. dialect (see quots.).
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > state of being thick enough to retain form > be thick enough to retain form [verb (intransitive)] > coagulate
runeOE
curda1382
congealc1400
clotterc1405
clodder1499
cludder1540
yearna1568
quar1578
curdle1586
clot1591
coagulate1600
clod1639
concoagulate1666
earn1670
set1736
keech1863
1863 W. Barnes Gram. & Gloss. Dorset Dial. Ketch, Keach, to set hard, as melted fat cooling.
1879 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. Keech, to consolidate, as warm fat, wax, etc. does in cooling.
1893 G. E. Dartnell & E. H. Goddard Gloss. Words Wilts. at Catch Keach, Keatch, to grow thick, as melted fat when setting again.
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