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kench

kench noun: a bin or enclosure in which fish or skins are salted.

Noun

kench (plural kenches)

  1. A bin or enclosure in which fish or skins are salted.
    • And while Harvey was taking in knowledge of new things at each pore and hard health with every gulp of the good air, the We're Here went her ways and did her business on the Bank, and the silvery-gray kenches of well-pressed fish mounted higher and higher in the hold.1896 November – 1897 May, Rudyard Kipling, “Captains Courageous”, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, published 1897, →OCLC
    • In the former process, the fish are thoroughly salted and placed in regular piles on top of each other, called kenches.1911, Raymond McFarland, A History of the New England Fisheries: With Maps, page 304

Proper noun capitalized: Kench

Kench

  1. A surname

Forms of kench

pluralkenches

Words that rhyme with kench

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Questions about kench

What does kench mean?
Kench means a bin or enclosure in which fish or skins are salted.
What part of speech is kench?
Kench can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of kench?
The plural of kench is kenches.

Words near kench in the dictionary

  1. kenareh
  2. kenarehs
  3. kenares
  4. kenas
  5. kenasai
  6. kench
  7. kenches
  8. Kenchester
  9. kencur
  10. Kendal
  11. Kendal green

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