Now dial. Forms: 4 prich, 5 thricche, thrich, 7– thrutch. [f. next.] An act of ‘thrutching’; a thrust, push, press, squeeze; also, concr. a narrow gorge or ravine (local).
13[?]. Gaw. & Gr. Knt., 1713. Þer þre þro [hounds] at a þrich þrat hym [a fox] at ones.
c. 1400. Destr. Troy, 12752. Þan entrid this Engist,… And, with a thricche in the throte, throtlet the kyng.
c. 1425. Wyntoun, Cron., V. iv. 606. [It] gert hym offt in thrichis [v.rr. thrystis, thryftis] thraw.
1678. Ray, Prov. (ed. 2), 302. Maxfield measure, heap and thrutch [cf. THRUST sb. 1].
1855. E. Waugh, Lanc. Life (1857), 33. The last sylvan stronghold of the fairies; where they would remain impregnable, haunting wild ‘thrutches’ and sylvan ‘chapels,’ in lonely deeps of its cloughs and woods.
1881. Westall, Old Factory, xi. I. 150. Try what a good thrutch … will do first.
