keachv.
/kiːtʃ/ Obsolete exc. dialect.
transitive. To take up (water, etc.) with a shallow vessel; to scoop up, ladle out: = cleach v. 3.
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the world > movement > transference > [verb (transitive)] > by a ladle, shovel, etc.
ladec950
keach1387
shovelc1440
scuppet1599
spoon1715
ladle1859
1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Rolls) VIII. 235 Ye schal kecche up water [v.rr. kyche, cleche].
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Intingere, to dip in, to kiche up [1611 to keech up].
1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Attingere,..to draw or keach water.
c1682 J. Collins Salt & Fishery 89 The Oyle will swim at top, from whence it may be keeched with a pot.
1881 Oxfordsh. Gloss. Suppl. Keach up, to take up water by ladling.
Derivatives
ˈkeaching in combinations.
keaching-ladle n.
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1633–4 Althorp MS in J. N. Simpkinson Washingtons (1860) App. p. lxiii To the tinker for mending the keeching ladle in the kitching.
keaching-net n. = cleaching-net n.
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1624–5 Althorp MS. in J. N. Simpkinson Washingtons (1860) App. p. lix For mending the drag nett & for 2 new keatching netts.
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