thrutch

1. (UK dialectal, Northern England) To push; press; shove; thrust.Examples: "If awd known wot aw know neaw, says Bobby, thrutchin his honds deep into his breeches pockets un hutchin up his shilders, theaw'd not ha getten me t' Knottmill fair."; "GOOD. A class o' folk ut thinken theirsels so perfect they need no thrutch for t' get a front place i'th' top shop. But if they yerd th' trumpet seaund they'd be off like red-shanks; an' wouldno' care whoa they elbowed back at th' gates."Northern-EnglandUKdialectal

2. (UK dialectal, Northern England) To press or squeeze cheese in a vat.Examples: "Thrutchings.—To thrutch is to squeeze. The whey which is squeezed out of the cheese when under pressure and after being salted, is called thrutchings."Northern-EnglandUKdialectal

3. (UK dialectal, Northern England) To crowd; throng; squeeze; huddle together.Examples: "Thir wur o lot o foke thrutchin reawnd summut; un aw thrutcht mi sel omung um , for to see whot wur gooin on."; "But, there it wur,—an' there it had to stop! for noather her nor me could stir a peg. ... Well; they olez say'n there's th' most thrutchin' wheer there's th' least reawm, an' it wur so theer, by th' mon;[…]"Synonyms: mass, press, assemble, begather, collect, congregate, congress, crowdNorthern-EnglandUKdialectal

4. (UK dialectal, Northern England, figuratively) To trouble; oppress; distress.Examples: "Then he grunted, an' mumble't, an' glendur't around, An' he tooted about o'er th' neighbourin' ground; Still, never a soul to turn th' stone could he find, An' it made him a little bit thrutched in his mind."Synonyms: grame, stress, torment, vexNorthern-EnglandUKdialectalfiguratively

5. (caving, climbing) To push, press, or squeeze into a place; move sideways or vertically in an upright position by wriggling the body against opposing rock surfaces. Compare chimney.Examples: "I thrutched up the final crack to a small pinnacle."