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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of bach.

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Examples

  • The company house in which the superintendent, the manager and the chief engineer "bached" only differed from the others by an added cleanliness, for Mrs. Van Zandt, the energetic woman who ran the boarding-house, gave an eye to its welfare.

    Across the Mesa Helen Bagg 1935

  • Those who "bached" had stacked their dishes and hurried from the supper-table to the Hinds House, where the regular boarders were already tilted on the rear legs of their chairs with their heads resting comfortably on the particular oily spot on the unbleached muslin sheeting, which each recognized as having been made by weeks of contact with his own back hair.

    The Man from the Bitter Roots Caroline Lockhart 1916

  • It is a safe wager that where two or three prospectors meet in a mining camp or cabin, the length of time which will elapse before the subject of conversation reverts to food will not exceed ten minutes and in this respect the inhabitants of Ore City who "bached" were no exception.

    The Man from the Bitter Roots Caroline Lockhart 1916

  • "I mind one winter when I 'bached' I tamed and halter-broke two chipmunks so I could lead 'em anywhur.

    The Dude Wrangler Caroline Lockhart 1916

  • Those evil republicans are also the ones who tanked the economy, bached the war in Iraq and watched as the biggest idiot in the history of the Oval office justified it and called a big clean up operation a victory.

    Race, age, gender are taboo in election 2008

  • "I mind the winter I bached on Crooked Crick I tamed a mouse," ventured

    The Man from the Bitter Roots Caroline Lockhart 1916

  • She thought she knew what place it was -- the shack where Rodway's hay-balers bached.

    Rowdy of the Cross L B. M. Bower 1905

  • You ain't anything like you were two years ago, when we bached together.

    Lonesome Land B. M. Bower 1905

  • When Mollie saw my "cottage" and the way that I had "bached",

    The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems Hanford Lennox Gordon 1878

  • Instead, Obama "waffled" and bached down from his original demands, "she said.

    Palestine Blogs aggregator 2010

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