quelch, v. rare.
(kwɛlʃ, -tʃ)
Also 7 quelsh.
[Related to squelch as quash, quat to squash, squat.]
intr. and trans. To squelch.
| 1659 Wood Life 31 July (O.H.S.) I. 280 Some hang swinging on the gallery..and then come quelshing downe on people's heads. 1866 Blackmore Cradock Nowell xxxvi. (1883) 219 With the water quelching in his boots. 1896 A. J. C. Hare Life II. x. 277 Any good opinion of me..was quelched by my want of admiration. |