runch Sc. and north.
(rʌnʃ)
[Orig. obscure.]
a. Charlock or wild mustard, Brassica Sinapistrum. b. Wild radish, Raphanus Raphanistrum.
| a 1585 Polwart Flyting w. Montgomerie 181 On ruites and runches in the fielde, With nolt thou nurishde was a ȝeir. 1691 Ray N.C. Words 59 Runches and Runchballs, carlock when it is dry and withered. 1743 Maxwell Sel. Trans. 80 This Ground, if it is much dunged, runs excessively to Runches, Skellochs, etc. 1788 W. H. Marshall Rur. Econ. Yorks. Gloss., Runsh, sinapis arvensis; wild mustard; catlock. 1817 Blackw. Mag. II. 235 He sows his barley early, and it is choked by runches and skelloch. 1848 Proc. Berw. Nat. Club. II. 318 Raphanus Raphanistrum, (the Runch or Jointed Charlock). 1896 P. A. Graham Red Scaur iii. 35 The wheat-field where they have been pulling runches or charlock. |
| attrib. 1552 Huloet, Runchball herbe or wylde rapes, Campestre rapistrum. 1691 [see above]. 1891 Atkinson Moorland Parish 346 Two tablespoonfuls of ‘runch’ seed. |