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1546 XXI. f. 67 Ane drinking quhaich price x s. iiij d.
1654–6 in C. Innes (1854) 602 2 Dundie queechs.
1673 (1894) 14 A quech weighting 18 unce and 10 drop.
1697 Inv. in (1900) Dec. 90/2 Three round queichs without luggs.
1703 Inv. in (1900) Dec. 90/2 A big quech cup with three lugs.
1715 A. Pennecuik Curious Coll. Scotish Poems in App. 71 A great Quech, which they were made to Drink out of.
1791 J. Learmont 50 O quegh o brose! wi' milk, or fat.
1819 W. Scott Bride of Lammermoor xii, in 3rd Ser. II. 301 There mounted guard on the other side of the mirror two stout warders of Scottish lineage; a jug,..and a quegh or bicker.
1849 J. W. Carlyle II. 61 Passing a cooper's shop..I stept in and bought two little quaighs.
1884 Queen Victoria 142 A silver quaich out of which Prince Charles Edward had drunk.
1913 C. Murray 88 He sweels their monyfaulds awa' Wi' wauchts fae gory quaichs.
1956 G. Taylor vi. 129 The écuelle, a similar French vessel with two opposed flat handles, somewhat resembling the Scottish quaich, but with a domed cover, was introduced early in the [eighteenth] century.
1971 14 Aug. 54/3 Play in the morning will be for the Brownlee trophy against bogey under handicap and for the Granton quaich for the best net score.
1976 D. Marlowe iii. 44 Lapotre stopped before a woman..carrying a souvenir (a mahogany quaich).
1997 26 Apr. 7/1 He had also been a keen member of the bank's curling club and the remaining £100 paid for a silver quaich which will be played for annually by club members.
2003 18 Jan. 27 I'd serve it [sc. Talisker] in a quaich that's being continually passed around the table.