"quinch" meaning in English

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        "1": "\"to shake, quiver\"; whence modern Dutch <i class=\"Latn mention\" lang=\"nl\">kwinken</i>, <i class=\"Latn mention\" lang=\"nl\">kwinkeleren</i> (“to warble”)"
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          "ref": "1598, Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande, page 213",
          "text": "And therupon to beſtow all my Soldiers in ſuch ſort as I have done, that no part of all that Realm ſhall be able to dare to quinch […]",
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        "To stir; to act as if in pain, flinch, wince."
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        "(obsolete, intransitive) To stir; to act as if in pain, flinch, wince."
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