v. rare. Also 7 quelsh. [Related to SQUELCH as quash, quat to squash, squat.] intr. and trans. To squelch.
1659. Wood, Life, 31 July (O. H. S.), I. 280. Some hang swinging on the gallery … and then come quelshing downe on people’s heads.
1866. Blackmore, Cradock Nowell, xxxvi. (1883), 219. With the water quelching in his boots.
1896. A. J. C. Hare, Life, II. x. 277. Any good opinion of me … was quelched by my want of admiration.
