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† zuche Obs.
[app. AN. form of OF. çoche (tsɔtʃə), mod.F. souche, Norman-Picard chouque (whence dim. chouquet): of unknown origin. Not known in real English use as an ordinary n.; survives in the town-name of Ashby-de-la-Zouch (Leicestershire).]
A tree stump.
[1220Close Rolls 4 Hen. III memb. 10 (1833) I. 418/1 De auxilio faciendo burgensibus Salop. de veteribus zuchis & de mortuo bosco. 1223Plac. Forest. in Com. Nott. (Cowell 1672) Omnes Zuches aridos qui Anglice vocantur stovenes infra Haiam nostram de Beskewood [now Bestwood]. ]1358Patent Rolls 32 Edw. III. memb. 5 (1911) i. 59 [Grant to Richard de la Vache, steward of the forest of Shirewod, of all logs (ligna) called] zouches in Beskwode. 1672Cowell Interpr., Zuche, zucheus, stips siccus & aridus, A withered or dry stock of wood. 1676Coles Dict., Zuche, Stovene, a withered or dry stock of wood. |