1562 W. Bullein Dial. Sorenes f. l^v, in Bulwarke of Defence Softe Chirurgians, make foule sores, yet Bocherly manglers, marreth all together.

1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. iii. xii. 629 A number of such botcherly-patchcotes..wherewith to enamell this treatie of Physiognomie.

1620 W. Lawson in J. Dennys Secrets of Angling (new ed.) sig. B It is botcherly, hinders the biting and sometime cuts the Line.

1685 in G. Rose Observ. on Work C. J. Fox (1809) App. 8 p. lxxiv The botcherly dog, the executioner..could not at fyve stroaks of the ax sever the head from the body.

1857 Glasgow Herald 17 July 4/4 To prevent any failure from a botcherly [assassination] attempt, their poniards were to be steeped in poison.

1879 Unitarian Rev. Mar. 286 Right ways of doing things as opposed to wrong, botcherly, clumsy, unhandy ways.

1919 G. Saintsbury Hist. French Novel II. ix. 362 Prévost..hit the white in Manon as certainly and unmistakably as he lost his arrows elsewhere... Pigault, in a clumsy, botcherly fashion, made ‘outers’ not infrequently.

?1566 W. P. tr. C. S. Curio Pasquine in Traunce f. 14^v Besides the gates of the Towers,..ther was an other great one..the whiche is but botcherly made.

1607 R. Parker Scholasticall Disc. against Antichrist i. i. 47 Painted or grauen, cunningly drawne or botcherly made.

1612 I. B tr. P. Du Moulin Waters of Siloe vi. 257 At the ende hereof let vs see a taile most botcherly clapt on by some Monk.

1638 W. Calley Let. 30 June (modernized text) in Cal. State Papers: Domest. Ser. 1637–8 (1869) 537 The livery cloaks now sent are made of hollow, bracky..cloth, and the bracks very botcherly mended.