Definitions for culches

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culches culch

Spelling: [kuhlch]

IPA: /kʌltʃ/

Culches is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 89 anagrams from letters in culches (ccehlsu).

Definitions for culches

noun

1. the stones, old shells, etc., forming an oyster bed and furnishing points of attachment for the spawn of oysters.
2. the spawn of oysters.
3. Also, sculch, scultch. Eastern New England. rubbish; refuse.

verb (used with object)

1. to prepare (an oyster bed) with culch.

Origin of culches

1660-70; perhaps metathetic variant of clutch²; but note Old French culche couch

Examples for culches

A sort of pavement of culch, on the mud of estuaries, for forming a bed for oysters.