name
Meaning 1
Potchefstroom (South African city).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
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Standard Lemma guide
potch
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/pɒt͡ʃ/
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rhymes with -ɒtʃ
noun
Meaning 2
A type of rough opal without colour, and therefore not worth selling.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, uncountable
Topics: chemistry, gemmology, gemology, geography, geology, jewelry, lifestyle, mineralogy, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
Examples
- 1982, Gemmological Association of Great Britain, The Journal of Gemmology, Volume 18, page 432, Discusses the difference between potch opal and common opal. The terms are often used synonymously, but this writer shows that potch is found only in association with precious opal and differs from common opal in its structure quite substantially.
- 2006, Michael O'Donoghue, Gems: Their Sources, Descriptions and Identification, 6th Edition, Elsevier, UK, page 321, Likewise, a thin piece of good opal on potch (opal with no play of colour) may be cut so that the potch acts as a backing.
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verb
Meaning 3
To thrust.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive, obsolete
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verb
Meaning 4
To trample.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, transitive
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verb
Meaning 5
To bleach rags in paper-making.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
Meaning 6
Obsolete form of poach (“to cook in simmering water”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, obsolete
Examples
- 1849, Ambroise Paré, Thomas Johnson (translator), Adriaan van den Spiegel (additional tractates), Concerning the Plague, The Workes of that Famous Chirurgion Ambrose Parey, page 553, Eggs potched and eaten with the juice of Sorrel, are verie good. Likewise Barlie-water seasoned with the grains of a tart Pomgranat, and if the Fever bee vehement, with the seeds of white Poppie.
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History
Etymology
From Old French pocher (“to poke”); akin to poach.