kinchn.
/kɪn(t)ʃ/, U.S. /kɪn(t)ʃ/, Scottish English /kɪnʃ/ Scottish.† 3. ? (One's) lot. Obsolete.
1. A loop or twist on a rope or cord, esp. the loop of a slip-knot; a noose.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fastening > binding or tying > a bond, tie, or fastening > [noun] > loop or noose
latchetc1350
noosec1450
strop1481
slip1687
twitch1783
kinch1808
fank1825
slip-cord1847
loop1944
1808–80 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Kinsch, the twist or doubling given to a cord or rope, by means of a short stick passed through it, in order to draw it tighter.
1811 W. Leslie Gen. View Agric. Nairn & Moray 459 Kinsch, a cross rope capped about one stretched along and tightening it.
1828 D. M. Moir Life Mansie Wauch xix. 280 Having fastened a kinch of ropes beneath her oxters.
1846 W. Cross Disruption xxviii. 311 I ha'e maist got my neck intil a kinch for my pains.
1861 J. McLevy Curios. Crime Edinb. 29 I put his right hand into the kench.
2. figurative. A catch, hold, advantage. ? Obsolete.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > [noun] > advantage over another > an advantage
advantagec1330
betterc1405
fordeal1470
vantage1490
fardredeal1521
forthdeal1542
kinch?1635
running start1842
leg up1930
?1635 in D. Dickson Sel. Pract. Writings (1845) (modernized text) 78 Every one seeking a kinsh of his neighbour.
1811 W. Leslie Gen. View Agric. Nairn & Moray 459 Kinsch, an advantage unexpectedly obtained.
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the mind > will > necessity > fate or destiny as determining events > [noun] > that which is ordained by fate > personal destiny or one's lot
lotOE
chance1297
fallc1300
weirds1320
cuta1340
fatec1374
vie1377
parta1382
foredoom1563
event1577
allotment1586
fatality1589
kincha1600
lines1611
fortunea1616
dispensation1704
a1600 A. Montgomerie Sonnets xxxvii I can not chuse; my kinsh is not to cast.
1606 W. Birnie Blame of Kirk-buriall vii. sig. C2 Our Heroik burials are oft led like a martiall triumphe... But alas, if in death we could count our just kinsh, we might rather dismay and feare.
1636 A. Montgomerie Cherrie & Slae (new ed.) 1100 The man may able tine a stot Who cannot count his kinch.
Derivatives
kinch v. (a) (see quot. 1808-18); (b) to put a string noose on the tongue of (a horse), in order to exercise control over it.
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society > occupation and work > industry > working with tools or equipment > fastening > fasten [verb (transitive)] > with rope, cord, or line
linea1398
ropea1400
cord1610
string1613
kinch1808
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > [verb (transitive)] > break a horse > by specific method
lunge1806
kinch1808
ring1814
Rarey1859
Rareyfy1892
Galvayne1905
1808–18 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. To Kinsch, to twist and fasten a rope.
1891 Sc. Leader 17 Apr. 5 The cruelty attached to ‘Kinching’ a pit pony..to hold that kinching in no cases should be resorted to.
1894 W. D. Latto Tammas Bodkin: Swatches o' Hodden-Grey xxvi. 273 The tooth cud be easily pu'd oot by means o' a rosety string kinched roon' the root o't.
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