• fitch

From Middle English vecche, fecche, ficche, from Old Northern French veche, variant of Old French vece, from Latin vicia. Doublet of fitch.

• IPA^(key): /vɛt͡ʃ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛtʃ

vetch (plural vetches)

1. Any of several leguminous plants, of the genus Vicia, often grown as green manure and for their edible seeds.
2. Any of several similar plants within the subfamily Faboideae.

• tare (rare)

• American vetch (Vicia americana)
• bard vetch (Vicia articulata)
• Bithynian vetch (Vicia bithynica)
• bitter vetch, blister vetch (Vicia ervilia)
• black vetch (Vicia nigricans)
• bush vetch (Vicia sepium)
• Carolina wood vetch (Vicia caroliniana)
• chickling vetch (Lathyrus sativus)
• common vetch (Vicia sativa)
• cow vetch (Vicia cracca)
• deervetch (Acmispon glaber)
• fine-leaved vetch (Vicia tenuifolia)
• fodder vetch (Vicia villosa)
• French vetch (Vicia serratifolia)
• garden vetch (Vicia sativa)
• giant vetch (Vicia nigricans)
• hairy vetch (Vicia villosa)
• Hawaiian vetch (Vicia menziesii)
• horseshoe vetch (Hippocrepis spp.)
• Hungarian vetch (Vicia pannonica)
• Kashubian vetch (Vicia cassubica)
• kidney vetch (Anthyllis vulneraria)
• mat vetch (Vicia americana)
• milkvetch (Astragalus spp.)
• narrow-leaved vetch (Vicia sativa)
• pea-flowered vetch (Vicia pisiformis)
• poisonvetch (Astragalus spp.)
• purple vetch (Vicia americana)
• pygmyflower vetch (Vicia minutiflora)
• single-flowered vetch (Vicia monantha)
• slender vetch (Vicia parviflora)
• smooth vetch (Vicia tetrasperma)
• spring vetch (Vicia lathyroides)
• tufted vetch (Vicia cracca)
• upright vetch (Vicia orobus)
• vetchling (Lathyrus spp.)
• vetchy
• winter vetch (Vicia villosa)
• wood bitter-vetch (Vicia orobus)
• wood vetch (Vicia sylvatica)
• yellow vetch (Vicia lutea)

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From Middle English fecchen, from Old English feċċan.

• IPA^(key): /vɛt͡ʃ/

vetch (simple past feight)

1. to fetch
   • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 13, page 90:

     He at nouth fade t'zey, llean vetch ee man,

     He that knows what to say, mischief fetch the man,

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 90