"seech" meaning in English

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      "form": "seeching",
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          "ref": "1879, Edwin Waugh, The chimney corner, page 208",
          "text": "\"I have spokken for misel',—an' for thee too. To th' best o' my thinkin', Jone,—wherever yo finden folk yo'n find foos.\" \"Well; it's th' likeliest shop to seech form 'em in, as how 'tis.\" \"It is, owd lad; an' if yo leeten of onybody at o', yo connot go wrang.\"",
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          "ref": "1883, M. R. Lahee, Acquitted Though Guilty, Or, The Tenant of Wild Bank: A Lancashire Story, page 119",
          "text": "Thereupon I went an' fotch'd Bob Howt an' Jem Ashworth to help me to seech for 'em, but o' to no use. So I said, 'What think'n yo' if they'n getten back to their owd shop? Let us goo seerch for 'em theer.'",
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          "ref": "1884, James Taylor Staton, Rays Fro Th' Loominary: A Selection of Comic Lancashire Tales Adapted for Public Reading Or Reciting, page 30",
          "text": "His seechin for some time wur like Will Whistler's hunt for crabfish i' Snig Bruck—he couldn't clap his honds on wot he wanted.",
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          "ref": "1896, Benjamin Brierley, \"Ab-o'th'-Yate\" Sketches and Other Short Stories in Three Volumes, page 51",
          "text": "Aw seeched for him till th' singing wur o'er, an' aw fund aw met as weel give it up; so aw gan it up, an' made mi way eaut o'th' palace. But th' gooin' eaut wurno' like th' gooin' in. Aw'd bowted at th' wrung dur, and getten amung th' carriages; ...",
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          "text": "\"I have spokken for misel',—an' for thee too. To th' best o' my thinkin', Jone,—wherever yo finden folk yo'n find foos.\" \"Well; it's th' likeliest shop to seech form 'em in, as how 'tis.\" \"It is, owd lad; an' if yo leeten of onybody at o', yo connot go wrang.\"",
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          "text": "Thereupon I went an' fotch'd Bob Howt an' Jem Ashworth to help me to seech for 'em, but o' to no use. So I said, 'What think'n yo' if they'n getten back to their owd shop? Let us goo seerch for 'em theer.'",
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          "ref": "1896, Benjamin Brierley, \"Ab-o'th'-Yate\" Sketches and Other Short Stories in Three Volumes, page 51",
          "text": "Aw seeched for him till th' singing wur o'er, an' aw fund aw met as weel give it up; so aw gan it up, an' made mi way eaut o'th' palace. But th' gooin' eaut wurno' like th' gooin' in. Aw'd bowted at th' wrung dur, and getten amung th' carriages; ...",
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