queach
/kwiːt͡ʃ/
queach noun: a thick, bushy plot; a thicket.
Noun
queach (plural queaches)
- A thick, bushy plot; a thicket.
- Men gan to shroud themselves in house. Their houses were the thickes,
And bushie queaches, hollow caves, or hardels made of stickes.1567, Arthur Golding, Ovid's Metamorphoses: the first booke, lines 137–8 - They found they lodged a boar of bulk extreme,
In such a queach as never any beam1614–1615, Homer, “The Nineteenth Book of Homer’s Odysseys”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published...
- Men gan to shroud themselves in house. Their houses were the thickes,
Forms of queach
| plural | queaches |
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Origin of queach
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Questions about queach
- What does queach mean?
- Queach means a thick, bushy plot; a thicket.
- What part of speech is queach?
- Queach is a noun.
- How do you pronounce queach?
- Queach is pronounced /kwiːt͡ʃ/.
- What is the plural of queach?
- The plural of queach is queaches.
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