cotched

Invulnerable himself, in one scrape only was he "cotched" -- at Bellow's meeting -- as you shall soon learn.

Fisher's River (North Carolina) Scenes and Characters 1859

What he would do to us when he "cotched" us she never specified, probably reasoning that the unknown was always more terrible than the known.

Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908 1908

Well, I runned arter thief i 'the dark, and fell ageän coalscuttle and my kneeä gev waäy or I'd ha' cotched 'im, but afoor I coomed up he got thruff the winder ageän.

Becket and other plays Alfred Tennyson Tennyson 1850

At one of the booths where wild beasts were exhibited to the wondering crowd, was a very large bear, which the showman assured them was "cotched" in the undiscovered deserts of the remotest Russia.

Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. Or, The Rambles And Adventures Of Bob Tallyho, Esq., And His Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, Through The Metropolis; Exhibiting A Living Picture Of Fashionable Characters, Manners, And Amusements In High And Low Life (1821) John Badcock 1823

July 3, 2009 at 2:28 am pappa-rottsey cotched the kitteh wiff hims pants down.

Why didn’t yu wake me sooner - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

I yam also a liddle surprized dat yew cotched the Cheech an Chong ref, dats simply nawt the kinda album dat I wooda figgured dat a sofisticatted feeture an opera lady would hab a familiar wid.

StalkerKitteh not detered by ADT - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

Yas, annipuss, zact rite, the Hindenburg cotched fire and exploded whilst trine to moor in Lakewood, Noo Joisey.

Camo-flaj… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

Toucheaterre beyond the wet prairie rared up in the midst of the cargon of prohibitive pomefructs but along landed Paddy Wip-pingham and the his garbagecans cotched the creeps of them pricker than our whosethere outofman could quick up her whats-thats.

Finnegans Wake 2006

“We cotched them for you, and you pull a gun on us,” Bee said.

To The Bright and Shining Sun James Lee Burke 1989

Somebody cotched them on a road at night and blowed them all over the side of a rock house.

To The Bright and Shining Sun James Lee Burke 1989