quitch

verb

1. (obsolete, transitive)To shake (something); to stir, move.
2. (UK, intransitive, regional)To stir; to move.

   “With a strong yron chaine and coller bound, / That once he could not move, nor quich at all […].”

3. (intransitive)To flinch; shrink.

noun

1. (uncountable)Elymus repens, couch grass (a species of grass, often considered a weed)

   “we found the bones and ashes half mortered unto the sand and sides of the Urne; and some long roots of Quich, or Dogs-grass wreathed about the bones.”