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▪ I. † ganch, n. Obs.
In 7–9 gaunch.
[related to ganch v. (F. ganche in the original of quot. 1718.)]
1. The apparatus employed in the execution of criminals by ganching; the punishment itself.
1625–6Purchas Pilgrims ii. 1623 By reason of that torment hee died presently upon the Gaunch. 1686J. Scott Chr. Life (1747) III. 91 Scorch their tender Parts with Fires, and rake their Bowels with Spikes and Gaunches. 1718Ozell tr. Tournefort's Voy. I. 72 The Gaunch is a sort of Estrapade, usually set up at the City-gates. The Executioner lifts up the Criminal by means of a pully, and then letting go the rope, down falls the wretch among a parcel of great iron flesh-hooks. a1783H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1792) V. 254, I would rather suffer the gaunch than [etc.].
2. A gash or wound made by a boar's tusk. (Cf. ganch v. 2.) arch.
1818Scott Br. Lamm. ix, I have heard my father say..that a wild boar's gaunch is more easily healed than a hurt from the deer's horn.
▪ II. † ganch, v. Obs.
Also 7–8 gaunch, 7 gansh.
[ad. F. *gancher (in pa. pple. ganché ‘Let fall (as in a strappado) on sharp stakes pointed with yron, and thereon languishing vntill he dye,’ Cotgr.) ad. It. *ganciare, f. gancio hook = Sp. gancho.]
1. trans. To impale (a person) upon sharp hooks or stakes as a mode of execution.
1615G. Sandys Trav. i. 66 The offending woman they drowne, and the man they gansh. 1655Massacres in Piedmont 35 They gaunched many..after the Turkish manner. 1690Dryden Don Sebast. iii. ii, Take him away; ganch him, impale him, rid the world of such a monster. 1718Ozell tr. Tournefort's Voy. I. 72 If a Cain happens to be taken they give him no quarter, he is either impal'd or gaunch'd. a1783H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1792) IV. 86 In about five days after, a convict was to be ganched.
2. Of a boar: To tear or gash with the tusk (in pa. pple. ganched).
1621G. Sandys Ovid's Met. iii. (1626) 50 Fierce Saluage, [a dog] lately ganched by a Bore. 1649G. Daniel Trinarch., Hen. V, ccv, One, ganch't i' th' flanke, breakes with a Restive Scorne; And claps his Crest through. 1783Ainsworth's Lat. Dict. (Morell) iv, s.v. Adonis, Being gaunched by a boar's tusks, he died in the bloom of his youth.
Hence † ˈganching vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1614W. Davies Trav. etc. B iij b, Their ganshing is after this manner: He sitteth vpon a wall, being five fadomes high..right vnder the place where he sits, is a strong Iron hooke fastned, being very sharpe; then is he thrust off the wall vpon this hooke with some part of his body, and there he hangeth sometimes two or three daies before he dieth. 1621G. Sandys Ovid's Met. viii. (1626) 158 The dogs he [a boar] wounds with ganching blowes. 1683in Phil. Trans. XIV. 443 For any hainous crime against the Government either Gaunching or excoriation, or cutting off the legs and arms. |