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Definition of Hotching
1. hotch [v] - See also: hotch
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hotching
Literary usage of Hotching
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines: Containing a Clear Exposition by Andrew Ure (1856)
"The ore is prepared as has already been described; and after being shaken in the
hotching tub," the upper part is entirely waste or refuse, and is called ..."
2. A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines: Containing a Clear Exposition by Andrew Ure (1853)
"The ore is prepared as has already been described ; and after being shaken in
the " hotching tub," the upper part is entirely waste or refuse, and is called ..."
3. Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue by Robert Ellis, Great Britain Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851, London Great exhibition of the works of industry of all nations, 1851 (1851)
"Mining and Minerai hotching-tub into the box or case of water iu which the
hotching-tub vibrates. CAHE No. ..."
4. The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham: Comprising a by William Fordyce (1857)
"Lead ore obtained from the bottom of the hotching tub, and ready for smelting.
10. ... being what has passed through the sieve of the hotching tub. 11. ..."
5. The life and adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (1808)
"... so I set to work a-tailoring, or rather indeed a-hotching; lor I made must
piteous work of it. However, I made -nut to make two or three waistcoats, ..."
6. The Bookman (1898)
"Do you not know that between us and the well there might be death half a dozen
times? The wood, I'll warrant, is hotching still with those disappointed ..."
7. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Courts of Exchequer and by Great Britain Court of Exchequer, Roger Meeson, William Newland Welsby, John Innes Clark Hare, Great Britain Court of Exchequer Chamber, Horace Binney Wallace (1843)
"_ ^ ' ., said that this construction will tend to defeat the object of HoTCHING*
the statute, because, in that case, there must be a previous ..."
8. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1833)
"hotching was that hen with clusters of yellow grapes—you know what we mean—as
full of egg- ies far off the shell, as Cairngorm is of Scotch pebbles, ..."
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