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- (1:4) "Some times youwl hear of a aulder kincher he carries away childer"
Kincher = cancer? EB Or "older kinship"—in the sense of Riddley's forebears having betrayed/exploited their children. GW Childer is the plural of child in most Scottish and North English dialects. As far as I know, it is not common in Template:Places or elsewhere in the South. EB