sleechn.
/sliːtʃ/ dialect.
1. Mud deposited by the sea or a river; soil composed of this.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > sediment or alluvium > [noun]
siltc1440
warpingc1440
slitch?a1475
sleech1587
alluvium1665
sediment1685
sullage1691
warp1698
wash1707
washing1707
alluvion1731
silting1739
warp land1794
alluvial1818
siltage1876
flood-loam1880
putty1883
the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > mud > [noun] > deposited by river or sea
oozeeOE
slimea1000
slitch?a1475
sleech1587
sludge1649
slob1748
1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1540/1 Wher the slub or sleech is fifteene foot deepe at the least, and the maine rocke immediatlie vnderneath it.
1623 Tract Parl. in S. Hartlib Legacy (1655) 288 Then would all..the barren lands [be] mended by Marle, Sleech, Lime, Chalk, Seasand, and other means.
c1682 J. Collins Salt & Fishery 19 The Ground..ought to be a Sea-Mud, Oase or Sleech.
1764 Museum Rusticum 2 103 As the sea left the marshes by degrees, the tides brought up the mud with them..; which mud we call sleech.
1799 J. Robertson Gen. View Agric. Perth 298 The soil is composed of a heavy, moist sleech.
1844 Ld. Cockburn Circuit Journeys (1888) 254 But when the sea..shrinks back, what a change! It becomes a world of sleech.
1899 G. Neilson Ann. Solway 44 The salty particles glittering on the sleech like hoar frost.
2. A stretch of mud on a shore.
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the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > seashore or coast > [noun] > muddy
muds1648
mudflat1795
slake1828
sleech1902
1902 Scotsman 11 Feb. (E.D.D.) There were near Bo'ness wide expanses of flat muddy foreshore, known as ‘sleeches’, or ‘slob-lands’,..covered at high tide.
Derivatives
ˈsleechy adj. slimy, muddy.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > marsh, bog, or swamp > [adjective] > mire > abounding in
slag1440
miryc1443
muddyc1450
filthy1566
mire1673
sloughy1704
sleechy1792
guttery1808
slubby1823
grooty1848
1792 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. IV. 138 A very flat, clay or sleetchy shore.
1844 Ld. Cockburn Circuit Journeys (1888) 254 Dismal swamps of deep, sleechy mud.
1877 G. Fraser Wigtown 192 The lands, fishings, sleechy grounds, and shores mentioned in the summons.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
sleechv.
/sliːtʃ/ Cheshire dialect.
(See quot.)
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1674 J. Ray N. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 43 To Sleech, to dip or take up water. [Hence in Grose, etc.].
1886–7 in Cheshire glossaries.
Derivatives
ˈsleeching-net n. (see quot. 1886).
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > net > [noun] > net on pole
pout net1443
sleeching-net1665
stick net1678
scoop-net1792
shoulder net1793
skimming net1806
stoop-net1806
dip-net1858
pole net1858
scoop1865
dipping-net1867
1665 Chesh. Farm Accs. in Sheaf (1882) II. 333 For the iron frame for the sleeching nett.
1886 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester Sleeching-net, a net fixed at the end of a long pole, for catching fish.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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