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Meaning of "culch" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD CULCH

Perhaps ultimately from Old French culche bed, couch.
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PRONUNCIATION OF CULCH

culch  [kʌltʃ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CULCH

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Culch is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES CULCH MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of culch in the English dictionary

The first definition of culch in the dictionary is a mass of broken stones, shells, and gravel that forms the basis of an oyster bed. Other definition of culch is the oyster spawn attached to such a structure. Culch is also refuse; rubbish.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CULCH


belch
bɛltʃ
cultch
kʌltʃ
Elx
eltʃ
filch
fɪltʃ
gulch
ɡʌltʃ
milch
mɪltʃ
mulch
mʌltʃ
pilch
pɪltʃ
sculch
skʌltʃ
squelch
skwɛltʃ
zilch
zɪltʃ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CULCH

cul-de-sac
CUL8R
Culbertson
culchie
Culebra Cut
culet
culex
Culham
culices
culicid
culiciform
culicine
culinarian
culinarily
culinary
cull
cullay
Cullen
cullender
culler

WORDS THAT END LIKE CULCH

ach
approach
as much
at a pinch
at a stretch
beach
branch
catch
Catholic Church
ch
church
coach
Czech
Deutsch
dutch
each
hilch
Liebfrauenmilch
Liebfraumilch
welch

Synonyms and antonyms of culch in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «culch» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CULCH

Find out the translation of culch to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of culch from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «culch» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

culch
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

culch
570 millions of speakers

English

culch
510 millions of speakers

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culch
380 millions of speakers
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culch
280 millions of speakers

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culch
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

culch
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

culch
260 millions of speakers

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culch
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Culch
190 millions of speakers

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culch
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

culch
130 millions of speakers

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culch
85 millions of speakers

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Culch
85 millions of speakers
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culch
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

culch
75 millions of speakers

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75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

culch
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

culch
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

culch
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

culch
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

culch
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

culch
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

culch
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

culch
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

culch
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of culch

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CULCH»

The term «culch» is used very little and occupies the 153.196 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CULCH» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about culch

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CULCH»

Discover the use of culch in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to culch and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Analytical Digest of Cases Published in the Law Journal Reports
Rejoinder to replication to the third plea, that all the liege subjects of the king, at the said time when &c., had of right the libcrty 81c. of fishing and dredging for oyster spat, in the said place in which &c., and of removing the earth, soil, and culch, ...
Henry D. Barton, 1840
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Aquaculture: Farming Aquatic Animals and Plants
Their particular propensity for diseases is a discouragement to farming. Table oysters are cultured on the bottom, off the bottom (Fig. 23.13) and suspended from the surface. The spat may be obtained from natural settlement on culch, e.g.  ...
John S. Lucas, Paul C. Southgate, 2012
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Stephen King's America
Especially in America, the world's citadel of culch. (3) The item of "culch" King refers to in the essay is an x-ray machine at a local shoe store where his mother had bought him a pair of Buster Browns. By slipping a coin into the machine, ...
Jonathan P. Davis, 1994
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Sun Valley grazing environmental impact statement (draft): ...
Cold Springs Creek Timber Culch Frledmsn Creek Trsll Creek 3.00 2.25 6.00 2.50 .50 2.25 3.25 5.8 1.5 1.5 .9 1.4 Cood Cood Cood Fair Fair ii .25 Hal ley Creek Fisher Canyon Creek Porcupine Creek .25 .10 .25 .10 7.3 1.2 1.2 Fair Fair ; Good ...
United States. Bureau of Land Management. Shoshone District, 1981
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The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang
culch . Inferior meat: odds and ends of meat: low, mostly London: ca 1815–80. Sinks, 1848. Ex S.E. and S.W. English dial. culch or culsh. cule. *. Abbr. reticule: c . (–1859); ob. H., 1st ed., implies it in CULLING. culing. *, see CULLING. cull,. cully.
Eric Partridge, 2003
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Proceedings: Symposium on Statistical Hydrology Held at ...
Do Mean cell center depth estimated from Walnut Culch rainfall data. / Rain gage number where the first cell is located; generated from a uniform distribution where / is an integer. N Number of cells per storm generated from a Poisson ...
‎1974
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Draft environmental statement on grazing management in the ...
Pony-London Hill i Fair Good — Fair 0421 Good — Good ~ Fair 0421 Good - Norwegian Culch- HoC Springs Good Excel. — Good — Excel. - Good — Good - Excel. - Iron Rod-CoCCon- wood Creek Good Good — Good — Good — Poor 0268 ...
United States. Bureau of Land Management, United States. Bureau of Land Management. Butte District, 1980
8
A Grammar of Iconism
Philip Booth, reminiscing about a line in "Eaton's Boatyard," the requisite tool in this culch there's no end to recalls that "I had only to retrieve the word 'culch' before I found myself writing the present poem." Years earlier, Booth had heard a  ...
Earl R. Anderson, 1998
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Nall's Glossary of East Anglian Dialect
CULCH. Norf. and Essex. In Suff. gulsh, thick dregs or sediment. At Colchester, the word is thought to have been derived from the oyster trade, in which it is applied to the refuse. In the Devon dialect, cauch is a disgusting mixture or mess. Gael.
John Greaves Nall, 2006
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Trying to Say it: Outlook and Insights on how Poems Happen
the poem is also a description of how you work at your own craft of poetry, how would you identify the throwing away of "practically nothing, " the "culch, " the disorder of the shop, the way the piece that already fits "begins to shape up" the idea, ...
Philip Booth, 1996

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CULCH»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term culch is used in the context of the following news items.
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I MADE IT UP: I resign as czar
“I want you to know that we'uns got culch here,” I'd always say. I don't know what I'll do with my time. Maybe I'll just wander the streets of ... «Southwest Virginia Today, Jun 15»
2
Two Manahawkin Restaurants Recycle Oyster Shells for Barnegat …
He is very interested in comparing oysters raised on culch (ground shell bits) in tanks at his hatchery with naturally occurring spat-on-shell ... «The SandPaper, Apr 15»
3
Attla given honorary No. 1 start for Open North American …
... Streeper's wife; Tanana's John Erhart; James Wheeler, of Clam Culch; rookie Nikki Seo, of Incheon, South Korea; and Jack Berry, of Homer. «Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Mar 15»
4
Crime spree: Mother and daughters arrested in Beverly Hills raid
The Metropolitan Robbery Unit formed Strike Force Culch in August to investigate the robberies and believe the vehicle used in the crime spree ... «The Daily Telegraph, Nov 14»
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'Eat UK oysters' scientists urge
The technique involves coating the sea bed with culch - oyster shells recycled from restaurants and shucking houses. If this is unavailable, ... «BBC News, Oct 12»
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Everybody's heard about the (Maine) words
Culch: any kind of trash or rubbish; occasionally used of a person held in low esteem; “I'm gonna clean all that culch of the basement if it's the ... «Bangor Daily News, Apr 12»
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Interview: A 'Sensational' Irish Film Release with Tom Hall …
... Irish film, a well-acted, well-written and for all it's darkness, at times surprisingly sweet comedy drama” (Culch.ie). IFTN caught up with director ... «The Irish Film Television Network, Oct 11»
8
The Old Wives' Tale (Modern Library #87)
After my great excitement with Jack London, Bennett was something of a letdown, reading more like fossilized culch than a lively adventure ... «Reluctant Habits, Oct 11»
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Seven Geographically Inaccurate Travel and Adventure Movies …
Per Irish blog Culch.ie, "The heroine's plane, traveling from Boston to Dublin is forced to land in Cardiff, Wales due to terrible weather. She ends ... «AOL Travel News, May 11»
10
The wheels of fate
He comes from one of the largest and most prolific sporting families in the midlands, and his late grandfather, Frank 'Culch' Dolan was a ... «Westmeath Independent, Apr 11»

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