Dictionaries of the Scots Language
Dictionars o the Scots Leid

A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

Hide Quotations Hide Etymology

Abbreviations Cite this entry

About this entry:
First published 1986 (DOST Vol. VI).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

Quach, Quaich, Quech, Queich, n. Also: quhaich; queech, queych, queigh; and Quafe. [Gael. cuach, OIr. cúach.] A quaich, the type of drinking vessel. Also comb. with -cup.See also Drinking vbl. n. 2 for some further examples.(a) 1546 Acta Conc. & Sess. MS XXI 67.
Ane drinking quhaich price x s. iiij d. 1659 Craven Ch. in Orkney II 197.
A new St. Johnstoune quach 1697 Coll. St. Leonard 220.
An large timbr quaich with Balligarnies armes in silver(b) 1654–6 Rec. Univ. Aberd. 602.
2 Dundie queechs 1660 Nicolson Diurnals 25 Feb.
For ane sylvir quech 34 li. 10 s. 1663 in Selkirk B. Ct. MS. II.
Queych 1666 Peebles B. Rec. II 71.
To buy ane silver queich … to be run at ane foir schoit 1673 Foulis Acc. Bk. 14.
To Law, goldsmith, for … a quech weighting 18 unce and 10 drop 1679 Thos. Kirke A Modern Account of Scotland (1679) 15.
And drink it in wooden queighs 1685 Soc. Ant. LVIII 354.
A large silver quech having 2 lugs 1694 Inchmahome Pr. 164.
Fyve new ale queiches 1697 Sc. N. & Q. (2 Ser.) II 90.
Ane old drinking queich and two new queichs with 4 luggs, thrie round queichs without lugscomb. 1703 Sc. N. & Q. (2 Ser.) II 90.
Three little queches cups and a big quech cup with three lugs