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▪ I. tench1|tɛnʃ|
Also 4–6 tenche, 5 tenych, 6 teyns(h)e. Pl. tenches, collect. tench.
[a. OF. tenche (in Cotgr.; cf. Picard tenke in Godef. Compl.), mod.F. tanche (13th c. in Littré):—late L. tinca.]
1. A thick-bodied freshwater fish, Tinca vulgaris, allied to the carp, inhabiting still and deep waters; also, the flesh of this fish as food.
1390Earl Derby's Exp. (Camden) 73 Pro tenches et roches.., iiij scot. xij d. 1392Ibid. 155 Pro xij tench et xij anguillis grossis, iij s. vj d. c1425Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 614/24 Suctus, a tenche. Ibid. 615/43 Tengiagio, a tenche. c1440Promp. Parv. 488/2 Tenche, fysche, tencha. 1485Nottingham Rec. III. 240, ij grete eles and a grete tenche. a1552Leland Itin. V. 73 A preati Poole wherin be good Luces and Tenchis. 1653Walton Angler ix. 175–6. 1787 Best Angling (ed. 2) 49 The tench the fishes physician (so called because his slime is said to be very healing to wounded fishes). 1802Bingley Anim. Biog. (1813) III. 80 Tench are partial to foul and weedy waters. 1867F. Francis Angling iii. (1880) 86 The tench is a very curious fish in his habits.
2. attrib. and Comb., as tench-broth, tench-fishing; tench-weed, a local name of pondweed.
1598Epulario I j, Halfe a pint of Pike or *Tench broth.
1888Goode Amer. Fishes 419 The season for *Tench fishing in Germany is from July to October.
a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, *Tench-weed, a sort of pond-weed, having a slime or mucilage about it... It is Potamogeton natans.
▪ II. † tench2 Sc. Obs. rare.
[a. Picard tenche, OF. tence dispute (12th c. in Godef.), f. tencier, tencer to contend:—pop. L. type *tentiāre, f. tentus, pa. pple. of tendĕre to stretch, strive, etc.]
(?) A taunt, reproach.
1513Douglas æneis ix. Prol. 23 The ryall style, clepyt heroycall,..Suld be compilit but tenchis or voyd word.
▪ III. tench3 slang.|tɛnʃ|
Abbreviation of detention, penitentiary.
1850Broad Arrow ii. 32 (Farmer) Prisoners' barracks, sir—us calls it Tench [Hobart Town Penitentiary]. 1887Horsley Jottings fr. Jail i. 12, ‘I..got remanded to the Tench’ (House of Detention). 1897P. Warung Tales Old Regime 143 We were all sent to a place called a tench and there we were signed off to Defferent masters. |