单词 | keech |
释义 | keechn. Obsolete exc. dialect. 1. A lump of congealed fat; the fat of a slaughtered animal rolled up into a lump. Also dialect with other allied meanings.In quot. 1623 referring to Cardinal Wolsey, as the son of a butcher. Tallow catch in 1 Henry IV, ii. v. 232 is explained by some editors as tallow keech. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > greasy or fatty material > [noun] > derived from animals > lump of keech1623 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 ii. i. 96 Did not goodwife Keech the butchers wife come in then. View more context for this quotation] 1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII i. i. 55 I wonder, That such a Keech can with his very bulke Take vp the Rayes o' th' beneficiall Sun, And keepe it from the Earth. 1765 S. Johnson Plays of Shakespeare V. 378 A keech is a solid lump or mass. A cake of wax or tallow formed into a mould is called yet in some places a keech. 1879 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. Keech, a cake of consolidated fat, wax, or tallow. 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Keech, the fat from the intestines of slaughtered animals; the caul. It is usually rolled up while warm into a solid lump. 2. (See quot. Cf. Notes & Queries 9th s. VII. 94/2.) ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > pastry > pasty > [noun] > types of pasty dariole?a1400 sambouse1609 venison pastya1616 flapjack1620 stucklinga1655 apple pasty1664 keech1677 marrow pasty1696 flap-apple1750 pâté1768 hoglinga1825 bridie1833 empanada1866 Cornish pasty1877 pelmeni1926 tiddy oggy1942 oggy1948 stromboli1950 samosa1955 1677 A. Littleton Eng.–Lat. Dict. in Dictionarium Latino-Barbarum Keech, a kind of Cake, collyra, libum. 1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words I. 365 Keech, a large oblong or triangular pasty, made at Christmas of raisins and apples chopped together. Derivatives keech v. dialect (see quots.). ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > state of being thick enough to retain form > be thick enough to retain form [verb (intransitive)] > coagulate runeOE curda1382 congealc1400 clotterc1405 clodder1499 cludder1540 yearna1568 quar1578 curdle1586 clot1591 coagulate1600 clod1639 concoagulate1666 earn1670 set1736 keech1863 1863 W. Barnes Gram. & Gloss. Dorset Dial. Ketch, Keach, to set hard, as melted fat cooling. 1879 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. Keech, to consolidate, as warm fat, wax, etc. does in cooling. 1893 G. E. Dartnell & E. H. Goddard Gloss. Words Wilts. at Catch Keach, Keatch, to grow thick, as melted fat when setting again. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < |
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