queach

Noun

1. A thick, bushy plot; a thicket.
   • Men gan to shroud themselves in house. Their houses were the thickes, And bushie queaches, hollow caves, or hardels made of stickes. - 1567, Arthur Golding, Ovid's Metamorphoses: the first booke, lines 137–8:
   • They found they lodged a boar of bulk extreme, In such a queach as never any beam - 1614–1615, Homer, “The Nineteenth Book of Homer’s Odysseys”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard]...