Lexicographical Neighbors of Hotches
Literary usage of Hotches
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1894)
"The bucket containing the ore is suspended from a long lever by which a boy jerks
or hotches it in the water. HOTCHIN, swarming. "Hotchin wi' maggots. ..."
2. The Works of Robert Fergusson by Robert Fergusson, Alexander Balloch Grosart (1851)
"... Nor ever fear uncanny hotches Frae clumsy carts or hackney-coaches, While I,
a weak and feckless creature, Am moulded by a safter nature. ..."
3. The Science of Railways by Marshall Monroe Kirkman (1913)
"These hotches close switches and 18; 9 and 19. Thus placing the resistance: shown
as a shunt around the field (see Fig. 90: At notch 13 switch J closes ..."
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