potch (third-person singular simple present potches, present participle potching, simple past and past participle potched)
To thrust.
To trample.
potch (uncountable)
(chiefly, Australia, mineralogy, gemmology) A type of rough opal without colour, and therefore not worth selling.
potch (third-person singular simple present potches, present participle potching, simple past and past participle potched)
(transitive) To bleach rags in paper-making.
Obsolete form of poach (to cook in simmering water).
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Source: Wiktionary
Potch, v. i. Etym: [Cf. Poach to stab.]
Definition: To thrust; to push. [Obs.] "I 'll potch at him some way." Shak.
Potch, v. t.
Definition: See Poach, to cook. [Obs.] Wiseman.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
2 May 2024
(verb) leave or give by will after one’s death; “My aunt bequeathed me all her jewelry”; “My grandfather left me his entire estate”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
