quinch

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"Is it who was in the dining-room, your Reverence?" asked Julia, in tones of respectful honey; "sure that was the carpenter's boy, that came to quinch a rat-hole.

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  1. To move; stir; wince; flounce. But Cato did abid it a long time, and never quinched for it, nor shewed countenance of fear. North, tr. of Plutarch, p. 638. Noe parte of all that realme shall be able or dare soe much as to quinche. Spenser, State of Ireland.
  2. To make a noise. Halliwell. [Provincial English]

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  • "'I don't want anny o' your Coom Biddy's, 'says she, stepping at me, with a black stripe across her face, she was that destroyed with rage, and I stepped back and held up me basket between us, she being bigger than I, and I getting no chance, and herself slipped and fell, and her nose got a clout with the hard edge of the basket, it would trouble the saints to say how, and then I picked her up and wint home with her to thry and quinch the blood. —  The Queen's Twin and Other Stories
  • "Is it who was in the dining-room, your Reverence?" asked Julia, in tones of respectful honey; "sure that was the carpenter's boy, that came to quinch a rat-hole. —  All on the Irish Shore Irish Sketches
  • i cant believe that her best friend would put the fifst 18 chapters on line without telling her now because of that this frickin awesome author might not finish the book which totally sucks because im in frickin love with her books. debbie hargesheimer Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 02: 35 PM EST stephanie just wanted to let you know that your books have turned our shops on the ear. every one is reading the four books and we have just finshed the draft of midnight sun and i can't think of any thing else but the draft to keep going we have list of clients that are buying the books or clients waiting for there turn to read them there is something about how you tell a story that well as my husband that has read the all and to day has just finshed the host saids the stories about edward and bella makes you thristy for more so please quinch our thristy and give us more we own tanning salons so we are telling everybody about the movie and all of the books. thanks debbie and ja makin me tan gang. —  Entertainment Weekly's Hollywood Insider
 

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  1. A variant of quitch, apparently simulating winch for wince.
 

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