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▪ I. † whitch Obs. or dial. Forms: 1 hwicce, 4 whichche, 4–5 whicche, whucche, 4–6 whiche, wyche, 5 whyche, wheche, whoche, wucche, 6 whytch(e, whitche, (9 dial. wytch). [OE. hwicce (also in cornhwycce), cognate with the synonymous hwæcce.] A chest, coffer, ark; = hutch n. 1, 1 b; a coffin.
a1100Aldhelm Gloss xviiib. 11 (Napier 186/1) Clustella, hwicce. 13..Metr. Hom. (Vernon MS.) in Archiv Stud. neu. Spr. LVII. 254/1 Whon þis corn to þis kniht was solde He dude hit in a whucche to holde. 13..E.E. Allit. P. B. 362 Alle woned in þe whichche [sc. Noah's ark] þe wylde & þe tame. 1387–8T. Usk Test. Love ii. ii. (Skeat) l. 29 Pannes mouled in a whicche [v.r. wyche]. 1415Somerset Med. Wills (1901) 401 And nether wheche, ne leede to be layde in, bote a grete clothe to hely my foule caryin. c1430Hymns Virgin (1867) 11 A table..Vnder þat auter In a whucche is done. 1541Will of John Hoper of Keynsham 19 Jan. (MS.), ij coffers & ij whytchys. 1596Unton Inv. (1841) 2, j olde whitche, and one musterd mill. [1856Morton Cycl. Agric. II. 727 Wytch, (Herefords.), same as hutch [= body of a waggon]. ] ▪ II. whitch variant of witch, flat fish. |