pech
/ (pɛx) /
a Scot word for pant
Origin of pech
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How to use pech in a sentence
Pakistan is less than ten miles to our right, the pech Valley immediately to our left.
Heart of Darkness: Into Afghanistan’s Taliban Valley | Matt Trevithick, Daniel Seckman | November 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTMost drivers using this road are headed to and from a handful of capillary valleys in the pech.
Heart of Darkness: Into Afghanistan’s Taliban Valley | Matt Trevithick, Daniel Seckman | November 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWe first met Hajji Zalwar Khan over tea and lunch in the pech Valley in a house clinging to a cliff high above the valley floor.
Heart of Darkness: Into Afghanistan’s Taliban Valley | Matt Trevithick, Daniel Seckman | November 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTSoldiers rotated out of the valley from other bases in the pech for a weekend of relief from the fighting before being sent back.
Heart of Darkness: Into Afghanistan’s Taliban Valley | Matt Trevithick, Daniel Seckman | November 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTNear the confluence of these two rivers a tiny bridge spans the gap connecting the Korengal with the pech.
Heart of Darkness: Into Afghanistan’s Taliban Valley | Matt Trevithick, Daniel Seckman | November 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
pech adds a list of the names of Conquistadores which I have not inserted, as it is less complete than that found in Cogolludo.
The Maya Chronicles | VariousI proposed to employ the afternoon by a walk through pech, and evoked a chorus of dismay and horror.
Through the Land of the Serb | Mary Edith DurhamThe landlady rushed out when she heard our horse hoofs, for she was expecting her husband, who had also gone to pech.
Through the Land of the Serb | Mary Edith DurhamBecause pecht (or pech), trow, and fairy are all synonyms for "dwarf."
The Testimony of Tradition | David MacRitchieSvet a rinn, hag z inn trz va zad, hag livirinn d'ezhan: Va zd, pech 'ed em euz a eneb ann env hag enu da enep.
The English Language | Robert Gordon Latham
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