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noun
A narrow gorge or ravine.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northern-England, UK, dialectal
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noun
A push; shove; thrust.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northern-England, UK, dialectal
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noun
A throng; a crowd.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northern-England, UK, dialectal
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noun
An obstacle overcome by thrutching; an act of thrutching.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northern-England, UK, dialectal
Topics: caving, climbing, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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verb
To push; press; shove; thrust.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northern-England, UK, dialectal
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verb
To press or squeeze cheese in a vat.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northern-England, UK, dialectal
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verb
To crowd; throng; squeeze; huddle together.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northern-England, UK, dialectal
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Synonyms: mass, press, assemble, begather, collect, congregate, congress, crowd, fall in with, flock, forgather, gather, gather up, group, herd, league, meet, meet up, muster, pack, team, team up, thring, throng, thrutch, astringe, compact, telescope, compactify, condense, densitize, mash, scrunch, smush, squoosh, squash, squish, squeeze
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verb
To trouble; oppress; distress.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northern-England, UK, dialectal, figuratively
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Synonyms: grame, stress, torment, vex
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verb
To push, press, or squeeze into a place; move sideways or vertically in an upright position by wriggling the body against opposing rock surfaces. Compare chimney.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northern-England, UK, dialectal
Topics: caving, climbing, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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History
From Middle English thrucchen (“to push, rush”), from Old English þryċċan (“to push, press, trample on, crush”), from Proto-West Germanic *þrukkijan, from Proto-Germanic *þrukkijaną (“to press”). Cognate with West Frisian drukke (“to press”), Dutch drukken (“to press, squeeze”), German drücken (“to press, push, squeeze”), Swedish trycka (“to press, push, squeeze”).
