thrutch

/θɹʌt͡ʃ/

verb5

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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.
- I thrutched up the final crack to a small pinnacle.
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(dialect, UK) To push; press; shove; thrust.
- If awd known wot aw know neaw, says Bobby, thrutchin his honds deep into his breeches pockets un hutchin up his shilders, theaw'd not ha getten me t' Knottmill fair. — 1857
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(dialect, UK) To press or squeeze cheese in a vat.
- Thrutchings.—To thrutch is to squeeze. The whey which is squeezed out of the cheese when under pressure and after being salted, is called thrutchings. — 1891
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(dialect, UK) To crowd; throng; squeeze; huddle together.
- Thir wur o lot o foke thrutchin reawnd summut; un aw thrutcht mi sel omung um , for to see whot wur gooin on. — 1857
(dialect, figurative) To trouble; oppress; distress.

An obstacle overcome by thrutching; an act of thrutching.
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(dialect, UK) A push; shove; thrust.
- There wur nowt left for Yem, theerefore, but to rouse up hur conshusness, so so settin his feet ogen hur un his bonds, he gien one sammin good thrutch, un sent hur slap off th' bed on to th' floor — 1857
(dialect, UK) A throng; a crowd.
(dialect, UK) A narrow gorge or ravine.

forms

thrutched · thrutching · thrutches

Phrases with thrutch