letch

English

Alternative forms

Etymology 1

See lech, lecher.

Noun

letch (plural letches)

  1. (archaic) Strong desire; passion.
    • De Quincey
      Some people have a letch for unmasking impostors, or for avenging the wrongs of others.
  2. (informal) A lecher.

Etymology 2

From loec - later lache, variant letch - for example Sandy's Letch located east of Annitsford in Northumberland.

Noun

letch (plural letches)

  1. A stream or pool in boggy land.

Etymology 3

Noun

letch (plural letches)

  1. Alternative form of leach

Verb

letch (third-person singular simple present letches, present participle letching, simple past and past participle letched)

  1. Alternative form of leach

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for letch in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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