释义 |
slitch Obs. exc. dial.|slɪtʃ| Forms: 5 slicche, slycche, 5–6 sliche, 6 slich, slyche, slytche, slitche, 7– slitch. [app. representing an OE. *slíc (see slike n.); for the phonetic development cf. ditch, sitch.] = sleech n. (See also quot. 1794.)
c1400Destr. Troy 5763 The Troiens dong hom doun in the depe sliche. Ibid. 13547 Thurgh the slicche and the slyme in þis slogh feble. 1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) I. 133 Nilus..makethe the londe plentuous thro slycche that hit drawethe with hit. c1585Pilkington Expos. Nehemiah ii. 27 b, For the wickednes of Sodom..that pleasant ground..is now barren, full of filthie mire, slitche, tarre, &c. 1688Phil. Trans. XVII. 985 They may..get admirable Slitch, where⁓with to Manure all their uplands. 1794Hutchinson Hist. Cumb. I. 564 Lime is chiefly used as a manure, with clagg or slitch, as the farmers call it, being the wreck left by the tide on the shore. 1878in Cumberld. Gloss. |