Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To put to death by letting fall from a height upon hooks or sharp stakes, or by hanging on a hook thrust between the ribs or through the pectoral muscles, as is or has been done with malefactors in Oriental countries.
- noun The punishment or torture of ganching.
- To make a snatch or snap at anything with open jaws, as a dog.
- noun A snatch at anything with open jaws; a bite.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To drop from a high place upon sharp stakes or hooks, as the Turks dropped malefactors, by way of punishment.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To drop from a high place upon sharp
stakes orhooks as a punishment.
Etymologies
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Compare French ganche, also Spanish and Portuguese gancho hook, Italian gancio.
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Examples
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We headed up the line, caught Fergal, grabbed him by the jacket, and trailed the useless ganch after us.
The Bloomsday Dead Adrian McKinty 2007
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-- Take him away; ganch him [5], impale him, rid the world of such a monster!
The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 07 John Dryden 1665
yarb commented on the word ganch
"You can sit for a minute in my lap."
"No - unless we undress and you ganch me."
- Nabokov, Ada, or Ardor
June 5, 2008
bilby commented on the word ganch
TMI :-(
August 19, 2021