thetchn.
/θɛtʃ/ dialect.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > leguminous plants > [noun] > vetch
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1733 W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale Farming 50 Waggon Loads of Peas, Thetches, Chaff and other Grain.
1759 in Q. Jrnl. Econ. Nov. (1907) 77 To be sowed Wheat as soon as the thetches are tyed off.
1893 G. E. Dartnell & E. H. Goddard Gloss. Words Wilts. Thetches, Thatches, vetches. Lent thetches are an early spring kind.
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