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knitch Now dial.|nɪtʃ|
Forms: α. 4 knucche, knohche, knycche, 4–6 knytche, 5 knyche, 6 knoche, 6– knitch. β. 6 nytche, 8– nitch.
[ME. knücche, knycche:—OE. ᵹecnycc(e (occurring in the sense ‘bond’); from same root as LG. knuck(e, Ger. knocke, a bundle of heckled flax. Ultimate etym. obscure: cf. tocnuicte and ᵹecnyht from a vb. cnycc(e)an in Lindisf. Gl.]
A bundle (of wood, hay, corn, etc.) tied together; a sheaf or faggot.
α [c950Durham Ritual (Surtees) 59 From synna usra ᵹicnyccum [L. a peccatorum nostrorum nexibus]. Ibid. 66 Deaðes ᵹicnyccum [L. mortis nexibus]. ]13..XI Pains of Hell 77 in Minor Poems fr. Vernon MS. 253 Ligate per fasciculos..Byndeþ hem in knucchen [MS. knucchenus]. 13..Coer de L. 2985 The ffootmen kast in knohches of hay,..And ffylde the dyke fful upryghte. 1382Wyclif Matt. xiii. 30 Gedre ȝee to gedre dernels,..and byndeth hem to gidre in knytchis [gloss or smale bundelis]. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. xcvii. (Tollem. MS.), [Flax] bounde in knytches [1535 nytches] and bondeles. 1481Nottingham Rec. II. 320, xvj. knitche de strey lates. 1519Churchw. Acc. Stratton in Archæologia XLVI. 207 Paid for strow v knochys jd. 1552Huloet, Knytche or bownche of woode, fascis. 1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 203 Himselfe tooke out of the sheafe or knitch the darts..one by one. 1850Kingsley Alt. Locke xxviii, If I dared break a hedge for a knitch o' wood, they'd put me in prison.
β1535[see 1398in α]. 1725Lond. Gaz. No. 6447/4 Taking Straws out of a Nitch of Straw. 1823Examiner 574/1 He was seen to go towards the thicket, for the purpose..of getting a nitch of fern. 1882West. Morn. News 25 Nov. 4/2 Wanted, 200 Nitches of well-made good reed, for thatching. 1888Edin. Rev. July 129 Nitch is a faggot of wood which a hedger has..a right to carry away at night. |