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Oche vs Ouche - What's the difference?

oche | ouche |

As nouns the difference between oche and ouche

is that oche is a line behind which a player's front foot must be placed when throwing a dart while ouche is a brooch or clasp for fastening a piece of clothing together, especially when valuable or set with jewels.

oche

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (darts) A line behind which a player's front foot must be placed when throwing a dart.

    • Homonyms

    * hockey

    Anagrams

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    ouche

    English

    Alternative forms

    * nouch * ouch * owch

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (poetic) A brooch or clasp for fastening a piece of clothing together, especially when valuable or set with jewels.
  • * 1485 , Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur , Book XX:
    • and the horse [was] trapped in the same wyse, down to the helys, wyth many owchys , i-sette with stonys and perelys in golde, to the numbir of a thousande.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.ii:
    • a Persian mitre on her hed / She wore, with crownes and owches garnished [...].
  • * 1611 , Bible , Authorized Version, Exodus XXVIII.11:
    • With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, shalt thou engrave the two stones with the names of the children of Israel: thou shalt make them to be set in ouches of gold.
  • * 1896 , Rudyard Kipling, ‘The Story of Ung’, Seven Seas :
    • There would be no pelts of the reindeer, flung down at thy cave for a gift, / Nor dole of the oily timber that strands with the Baltic drift; / No store of well-drilled needles, nor ouches of amber pale; / No new-cut tongues of the bison, nor meat of the stranded whale.