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† knetch, v. Obs.
Also 6 knatch.
[app. a phonetic variant or deriv. of knack v.]
trans. To knock (on the head), destroy, crush, suppress.
a1564Becon Common-pl. Holy Script. in Prayers, etc. (1844) 339 He that killeth a sheep for me knetcheth a dog. 1579Gosson Sch. Abuse 29 b, With a great clubbe [Commodus] knatched them all on the hed, as they had been Giauntes. 1609Bp. W. Barlow Answ. Nameless Cath. 17 Now for vs to feret and knetch these Vermin. 1633T. Adams Exp. 2 Peter iii. 3 That treason was knetched before it was fully hatched. |