Obs. rare. [app. ad. OF. esche, aiche tinder:—L. esca bait.] A taper.
1546. Bale, Eng. Votaries, II. (1550), 52. [Women] that gaue aultre clothes and towels, waxe candels and eches, masse grotes and trentals. Ibid., 84 b. They toke of these sea crabbes, and tyed eches into them light.
