pritch

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English pricche, priche, from Old English priċe (“point; prick; stitch; spot”), from Proto-Germanic *prikiz. See prick.

Noun

pritch (plural pritches)

1. (UK, dialect or obsolete) A sharp-pointed instrument.
2. (UK, dialect or obsolete) An eelspear.
3. (UK, dialect or obsolete) pique; offence
   • 1642, Daniel Rogers, Naaman the Syrian:

     The least word uttered awry, the least conceit taken or pritch, the breaking in of a cow into their grounds, yea, sheep or pigs is enough to make suits, and they will be revenged.

Etymology 2

From Middle English pricchen, from Old English *priċċan (attested in āpriċċan), from Proto-Germanic *prikjaną (“to prick; pierce”). More at prick.

Verb

pritch (third-person singular simple present pritches, present participle pritching, simple past and past participle pritched)

1. (transitive) To pierce or make holes in.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “pritch”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• chirpt