blenchern.
/ˈblɛnʃə/ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > sowing and planting equipment > [noun] > bird-scarer
scarlec1440
scare1530
blencher1531
shail1531
fray-boggard1535
crow-keeper1562
malkinc1565
clacket1594
scarecrow1606
clap-mill1613
field keeper1620
shaw-fowl1621
bean-shatter1639
clapper1660
dudman1670
clack1678
hobidy-booby?1710
worricow1711
cherry-clapper1763
flay-crake1788
potato-bogle1815
cherry-clack1824
feather-piea1825
flay-crow1824
gally-baggar1825
gally-crow1825
bogle1830
tatie-bogle1838
shewel1888
scare-string1889
the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > causing physical symptoms > [noun] > scarecrow or device for scaring birds
buga1425
scarlec1440
scare1530
blencher1531
shail1531
fray-boggard1535
malkinc1565
clacket1594
bogle-bo1603
scarecrow1606
blinks1611
clap-mill1613
shaw-fowl1621
dudman1670
hobidy-booby?1710
cherry-clapper1763
flay-crake1788
potato-bogle1815
cherry-clack1824
feather-piea1825
flay-crow1824
gally-baggar1825
gally-crow1825
bogle1830
deadman1839
hodmandod1881
scarer1930
the world > food and drink > hunting > equipment > [noun] > thing placed to turn deer
shewelc1250
blancher1535
shewelling1575
blenchera1640
sewin1886
1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour i. xxiii. sig. Lvv The good husbande..settethe vp cloughtes or thredes, whiche some call..blenchars..to feare away birdes.
1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie lxx. 192 To set up bleinchers, or sewels (which are white papers).
a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Loves Pilgrimage ii. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Aaaaaaaa4 v/2 Hurt those That stand but by as blenchers.
2. One who blenches or flinches.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > fear > physical symptoms of fear > [noun] > cowering or blenching > one who cowers or blenches
funker1826
blencher1873
the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > abstaining or refraining from action > [noun] > avoiding an action or condition > shrinking or recoiling > one who
flincher1598
starter?1614
blanchera1659
funker1826
blencher1873
1873 W. Morris Love is Enough 55 No blencher in battle.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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