Verb

(es)

To move irregularly up and down.

To swarm ((with)).

* 2008 , (James Kelman), Kieron Smith, Boy , Penguin 2009, p. 314:

What if I went up? Imagine nobody had done it before. It would be hoaching with balls and stuff, hundreds of things.

Verb

(head)

* {{quote-book, year=1911, author=Edward S. Ellis, title=The Lost Trail, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Blast his sowl--that hunter I mane, an' if iver I cotch him, may I be used for a flail if I don't settle his accounts." }}

* {{quote-book, year=1892, author=Harry Castlemon, title=Frank on a Gun-Boat, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage="Dey come here for to cotch young massa George Le Dell, 'cause dey knowed he would be shore for to come here." }}

* {{quote-book, year=1914, author=Various, title=Dew Drops Vol. 37. No. 17, April 26, 1914, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Youse bettah look out, honey, or dey'll cotch youalls, shuah!" }}

* {{quote-book, year=1880, author=Martha Lewis Beckwith Ewell, title=The Harvest of Years, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Mas'r Sumner an' a'heap mo' on 'em would jes' like fur to kill dat Mas'r Dayton ef dey could cotch him. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1901, author=John Hay, title=The Bread-winners, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=But one ting ish goot; dey cotch de murterer." }}

* {{quote-book, year=1911, author=Charles Egbert Craddock (aka Mary Noailles Murfree), title=The Raid Of The Guerilla, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Ye mought hev cotch the smallpox. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1839, author=Charles James Lever, title=The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Vol. 2, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage="Well, we've cotch them any how," said the urchin, as he disengaged himself from his wet saddle, and stood upon the ground; "and it is not my fault that the coach is not before us." }}