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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Quotation dates: 1499-1500, 1604-1605
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Ho(t)ch, v. Also: hatch (also rarely in the mod. dial.). [North. ME. hotche (? a 1400), and in the mod. north. Eng. and Sc. dialects: cf. Du. hotsen to jog, jolt, MHG. and Germ. dial. hotzen to move up and down, and OF. hochier to shake, tremble. Cf. Hich v.2] intr. To move jerkily up and down, to bob, jog. — a1500 Peblis to Play 197.
So hevelie he hochit about, To se him, lord as thai ran a1605 Montg. Flyt. in 1581-1623 James VI Poems I. 81/17.
Quhen our gude nichtbors rydis. ., Some hotcheand on a hemp stalk, hovand on a heicht a1605 Montg. Flyt. 395 (Hart, 1629, ed. Cranstoun).
Some hobles, some hatches [v.rr. hichis, hitches; rh. bitches, fetches] a1605 Ladyland in Montg. Sonn. lxvi. 6.
With old bogogers hotching on a sped
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