Meaning of couch a hogshead | Babel Free

Definitions

To lie down to sleep.

UK, obsolete

Examples

“I couched a hogshead in a Skypper this darkemans.”

“Ben mort, shall you and I heave a bough, mill a ken, or nip a bung, and then we'll couch a hogshead under the ruffmans, and there you shall wap with me, and I'll niggle with you.”

“Mayhap we have been in the same bousing ken or stalling ken at some time. Mayhap we have couched a hogshead at the same house in Southwark.”

CEFR level