thrutching

Verb (1)

thrutch (third-person singular simple present thrutches, present participle thrutching, simple past and past participle thrutched)

1. (Northern England, UK, dialectal) To push; press; shove; thrust.
   • If awd known wot aw know neaw, says Bobby, thrutchin his honds deep into his breeches pockets un hutchin up his shilders, theaw'd not ha getten me t' Knottmill fair.1857 February 14, James Taylor Staton, “Dumplin Haw Ghost”, in The Bowtun Luminary, volume 8, number 7, Bolton, page 52
2. (Northern England, UK, dialectal) To press or squeeze cheese in a vat.
   • Thrutchings.—To thrutch is to squeeze. The whey which is squeezed out of the cheese when under pressure and after being salted, is called thrutchings.1891 March 4, Robert Holland, “Cheese-making and Butter-making Terms in Use in 1688”, in The Cheshire Sheaf, Chester: The "Chester Courant" Office, published 1895, Replies, page 39
3. (Northern England, UK, dialectal) To crowd; throng; squeeze; huddle together.
   • Thir wur o lot o foke thrutchin reawnd summut; un aw thrutcht mi sel omung um , for to see whot wur gooin on.1857, “Part Sixt Un Last”, in Sam Sondnokkur's Ryde fro Ratchda to Manchistur, 2nd edition, Manchester: John Heywood, page 14

   Synonyms:

   mass, press, assemble, begather, collect, congregate, congress, crowd, fall in with, flock

4. (Northern England, UK, dialectal, figuratively) To trouble; oppress; distress.
   • Then he grunted, an' mumble't, an' glendur't around,
     An' he tooted about o'er th' neighbourin' ground;
     Still, never a soul to turn th' stone could he find,
     An' it made him a little bit thrutched in his mind.1874, Edwin Waugh, “The Old Coal Man”, in The Chimney Corner, Manchester: Abel Heywood & Son, published 1879, page 74

   Synonyms:

   grame, stress, torment, vex

Verb (2)

thrutch (third-person singular simple present thrutches, present participle thrutching, simple past and past participle thrutched)

1. (Northern England, UK, dialectal) To push, press, or squeeze into a place; move sideways or vertically in an upright position by wriggling the body against opposing rock surfaces. Compare chimney.
   • I thrutched up the final crack to a small pinnacle.

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