Obs. Also 7 quince. [? var. of quitch QUETCH, by assoc. with winch WINCE; or related to winch as quag to wag.] intr. To move, stir, make a slight noise; to start, flinch.
1530. Palsgr., 677/1. I Quynche, I styrre, je mouue. Ibid. I quynche, I make a noyse, je tynte.
1576. Holinshed, Chron. (1586), III. 583/2. [He was] so manfull of mind as neuer seene to quinch at a wound.
1607. R. C[arew], trans. Estienne’s World of Wonders, 49. None durst once quince or speake a word against him.
1627. E. F., Hist. Edw. II. (1680), 81. Which single durst not quinch, much less encounter.
