English Dictionary

filch

/fɪlt͡ʃ/

noun

Something which has been filched or stolen. / An act of filching; larceny, theft. / (obsolete) A person who filches; a filcher, a pilferer, a thief. / (obsolete) A hooked stick used to filch objects.

He discovered a filch in his bag.

意味（1）

Something which has been filched or stolen.

'New Sabbath' is partially a filch from [George Frideric] Handel's beautiful but voluptuous song in Hercules, 'There the brisk sparkling nectar drains.'

意味（2）

An act of filching; larceny, theft.

By the appropriation clause, which is here referred to, it was proposed to apply a part of the property of the Irish Church to secular purposes, that is, to work a transfer of property, with an alteration of its uses. Call this as you will, a spoliation, or wise application, it implies a loss to one and a gain to other, of the same property. In the evil sense, it means spoliation, or wrongful deprival, appropriation, or conveyance in the sense of a filch.

意味（3）

(obsolete) A person who filches; a filcher, a pilferer, a thief.

A ſimple lad, with a whip in one hand, and the other locked in the arm of a young girl, is ſo loſt in gaping aſtoniſhment, that an adroit branch of the family of the Filches is clearing his pockets of their contents.

意味（4）

(obsolete) A hooked stick used to filch objects.

Thus much for their fraternities, names, lodgings, and assemblies, at all which times everyone of them carries a short staff in his hand, which is called a filch, having in the nab, or head, of it, a ferme (that is to say, a hole) into which, upon any piece of service, when he goes a filching, he putteth a hook of iron, with which hook he angles at a window in the dead of night, for shirts, smocks, or any other linen or woollen. And for that reason is the staff called a filch.