Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • A variant of poach.
  • An obsolete form of poach.
  • In paper manufacturing, to perform gas-bleaching upon (paper-stock) in a potching-engine.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • intransitive verb obsolete To thrust; to push.
  • transitive verb obsolete See poach, to cook.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun mineralogy A type of rough opal without colour, and therefore not worth selling.
  • verb Obsolete form of poach (to cook)
  • verb To thrust.
  • verb To trample.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Old French pocher ("to poke"); akin to poach.

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  • Usually used by Jewish mothers in conjunction with the word tuccus.

    February 17, 2007

  • "...for where

    I thought to crush him in an equal force,--

    True sword to sword,--I'll potch at him some way,

    Or wrath or craft may get him."

    - William Shakespeare, 'The Tragedy of Coriolanus'.

    August 28, 2009