Lexicographical Neighbors of Painches
Literary usage of Painches
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1894)
"To "keep the painches waggin "—to continue at severe and incessant toil; from
the wagging or shaking of the bowels during excessive exertion. ..."
2. Northumberland Words by Richard Oliver Heslop, Oliver Heslop (1894)
"To "keep the painches waggin "—to continue at severe and incessant toil; from
the wagging or shaking of the bowels during excessive exertion. ..."
3. A History of the Reigning Family of Lahore: With Some Account of the Jummoo by George Carmichael Smyth (1847)
"On this great confusion ensued, arising out of the conflicting opinions of the
painches as to which officers should be kept and which dismissed. ..."
4. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1850)
"An instrument of torture, probably the same as the brate. painches. Tripe. North.
painches -WAGGON. A north-country phrase implying incessant labour. ..."
5. Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the by Thomas Wright (1904)
"(3) ». A sore. Staff. PAIR, ». To beat. North. PAILLET, ». (A.-N.) A couch.
PAIN-BALK, ». An old instrument of torture. painches, ». Tripe. North. ..."
6. The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke by Edmund Burke (1877)
"count Bengal book-keeping is as remote from good book-keeping as the Bengal
painches are remote from all the rules of good composition. We have, how ever, ..."
7. The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke by Edmund Burke (1869)
"count Bengal book-keeping is as remote from good book-keeping as the Bengal
painches are remote from all the rules of good composition. We have, how ever, ..."
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