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单词 whitch
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whitchn.

Forms:

α. early Old English huice, Old English hwycce, late Old English hwicce, Middle English whicch, Middle English whicche, Middle English whichche, Middle English whiȝcche, Middle English whyche, Middle English wycche, Middle English wyhche, Middle English–1500s whiche, Middle English–1500s wyche, Middle English (1600s English regional (west midlands)) which, 1500s whitche, 1500s whytche, 1500s wytche, 1600s witch (English regional (southern)), 1800s wytch (English regional (west midlands)).

β. Old English–early Middle English hwæcce, Middle English wheche.

γ. Chiefly south-west midlands and south-western early Middle English ȝwuchche, Middle English whoche, Middle English whucche, Middle English whuche, Middle English wucche, Middle English wȝucche.

Origin: Of unknown origin.
Etymology: Origin unknown. Perhaps ultimately related to hutch n.The (rare) β. forms are difficult to explain. Also attested as the first element of the surname of Will. le Wycchewrichte (1256). Compare also rare English regional (Herefordshire) witch-hole, the first element of which may perhaps show this word:1974 W. Leeds Herefordshire Speech 106 Witch-hole, a small opening in the wall near the fireplace in which the tinder box was kept.
Obsolete (English regional (Herefordshire) in later use).
A chest, coffer, ark (= hutch n. 1a, 1b); (also) a coffin. In later use: the body of a wagon (perhaps cf. hutch n. 3f).In quot. eOE rendering a Latin lemma of uncertain etymology and meaning. In quot. lOE rendering a figurative use of the plural of classical Latin clustellum (also clostellum, claustellum) bolt, lock.Also as the second element in Old English corn-hwicce grain-bin.
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eOE Corpus Gloss. (1890) 117/1 Tria, huice.
OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 2nd Ser. (Cambr. Gg.3.28) xi. 103 Ða wearð gemet þæt feoh and twentig penega toeacan uppon anre cornhwyccan [Corpus Cambr. 198 cornhwæccan, c1175 Cambr. Ii.1.33 cornhwæccan; L. super arcam vero monasterii quae erit frumento plena].
lOE Aldhelm Glosses (Auct. F.2.14) in A. S. Napier Old Eng. Glosses (1900) 186/1 Clustella : hwicce.
a1325 (c1280) Southern Passion (Pepys 2344) (1927) l. 164 Þulke þing Þat ymad was a maner wucche þat me dude yn offryng.
c1390 MS Vernon Homilies in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1877) 57 254 Whon þis Corn to þis kniht was solde, he dude hit In a whucche to holde.
c1390 (?a1300) Stations of Rome (Vernon) (1867) i. l. 315 A table..Vnder þat auter In a whucche is done.
c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 362 Alle woned in þe whichche [sc. Noah's ark] þe wylde & þe tame.
1415 in F. W. Weaver Somerset Medieval Wills (1901) 401 And nether wheche, ne leede to be layde in, bote a grete clothe to hely my foule caryin.
?a1450 Memoriale Credencium (Tanner 201) (1979) 140 (MED) Osa touched þe whicche þat þe tables were inne of þe olde testament in þe which god had y write þe x commaundementis.
1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in Wks. G. Chaucer ii. f. cccxxxvii Pannes mouled in a wyche.
1541 Will of John Hoper of Keynsham 19 Jan. (MS.) ij coffers & ij whytchys.
1559 Will of Arthur Cole (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/42A) f. 336 A wytche in the universitie of Oxforde called Cista Antiqua universitatis.
1596 Unton Inv. (1841) 2 j olde whitche, and one musterd mill.
1678 in D. G. Vaisey Probate Inventories Lichfield & District 1568–1680 (1969) 269 In the chamber ouer the house one joyne bedsted..one coverlid, one little colfer, tow straw whichis, one set of curtins and one carpet.
1856 J. C. Morton Cycl. Agric. (new ed.) II. (Gloss.) 727/2 Wytch, (Herefords.), same as hutch [= body of a waggon].
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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