Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
ganch , ganch.
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Examples
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In some places ginch was used in others gitch and in Alberta “gaunch” was the word.
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Cabrach, that a wild boar's gaunch is more easily healed than a hurt from the deer's horn, for so says the old woodman's rhyme --
The Bride of Lammermoor Walter Scott 1801
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“But the gentleman says very right for all that, my lady,” said an old huntsman, who had listened to Bucklaw’s harangue with no small edification; “and I have heard my father say, who was a forester at the Cabrach, that a wild boar’s gaunch is more easily healed than a hurt from the deer’s horn, for so says the old woodman’s rhyme —
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