queach

plural queaches

1. archaicA thick, bushy plot; a thicket.

   They found they lodged a boar of bulk extreme, In such a queach as never any beam

   1614–1615, Homer, “The Nineteenth Book of Homer’s Odysseys”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume II, London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC

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   Men gan to shroud themselves in house. Their houses were the thickes, And bushie queaches, hollow caves, or hardels made of stickes.

   1567, Arthur Golding, Ovid's Metamorphoses: the first booke, lines 137–8