keech

plural keeches

1. obsoleteA mass or lump of fat rolled up by the butcher.

   I wonder That such a keech can with his very bulk Take up the rays o' th' beneficial sun, And keep it from the earth.

   1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]

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   I observed them [natives of British Columbia] on another occasion content with merely warming keeches of raw and solid flesh under their naked armpits.

   1889, Heywood Walter Seton-Karr, Ten Years' Wild Sports in Foreign Lands: Or, Travels in the Eighties

plural Keeches

1. A surname.