queach

queach

English

Etymology

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Noun

queach (plural queaches)

1. A thick, bushy plot; a thicket.
   • 1567, Arthur Golding, Ovid's Metamorphoses: the first booke (lines 137-8)

     Men gan to shroud themselves in house. Their houses were the thickes,
     And bushie queaches, hollow caves, or hardels made of stickes.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for queach in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)