keech

See also: Keech

English

Etymology

Compare dialectal English keech (“cake”).

Noun

keech (plural keeches)

1. (obsolete) A mass or lump of fat rolled up by the butcher.
   • Shakespeare, Henry VIII act 1 scene 1

     I wonder / That such a keech can with his very bulk / Take up the rays o' th' beneficial sun, / And keep it from the earth.

   • 1889, Heywood Walter Seton-Karr, Ten Years' Wild Sports in Foreign Lands: Or, Travels in the Eighties

     I observed them on another occasion content with merely warming keeches of raw and solid flesh under their naked armpits.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “keech”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Cheek, cheek

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Scots

Noun

keech (uncountable)

1. Alternative spelling of kich

References

• “keech” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.