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† bache Obs.
Also 3 bæch, bæcch(e, 9 -bach, -batch.
[Origin doubtful. Possibly a dialect form of *becch, betch, answering to an OE. *bęcc, = ON. bekkr, Eng. beck:—OTeut. *bakjo-z, cognate with OE. bęce:—OTeut. *baki-z, brook, rivulet, stream. The transference of meaning from stream to stream-valley would be parallel to the north Eng. and Lowland Sc. use of -burn, -water, in proper names, for the whole river-vale or dale.]
The vale of a stream or rivulet.
a1000in Kemble Cod. Dipl. III. 380 Of ðám æcere in cærsa bæc [printed bæt], of ðám bæce in pipan. a1200in Notes to Layamon's Brut III. 447 At Clent in Cu-bache [Lat. interp. In Clent, in Convalle Bovina]. 1205Lay. 757 [He] ferde æfter ane bache..wes þe wei holh & long; [1250] Þe cleues weren stronge. Ibid. 2596 He bicom in a bæch þer he bale funde. Ibid. 21776 Of dalen & of dunen, & of bæcchen deopen. c1305St. Kenelm 244 in E.E.P. (1862) 54 Coubache me clipede þis valeye & ȝut me doþ also: In Coubache þis holi bodi lay wel menie a ȝer. Ibid. 289 Vnder þe þorn of Coubage. 1393Langland P. Pl. C. viii. 159 Bote blostered forth as bestes, ouer baches and hulles. 1494Fabyan vi. clviii. 147 At Clent in Cowbacch..whiche is to meane in Englysshe nowe vsyd, at Clent in Cow vale. 1884J. Amphlett (in letter) The deep vale in which St. Kenelm's chapel is situated, is now called Clatterbach (-batch). In two other stream-vales, east of it, are fields called Withey Batch, and Mare Batch. |