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ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Adj
Pronunciation: /kʌlt͡ʃ/

Definition 1:
• Location where potentially useful junk items are collected: culch corner, culch drawer, culch pile.
Labels: Maine, US, not-comparable
Noun
Pronunciation: /kʌlt͡ʃ/

Definition 1:
• The rocks, crushed shells, and other sea detritus that create an oyster bed, where oyster spawn can attach themselves; a collection of such detritus, accumulated on land, to drop in the sea to build up oyster beds.
Labels: uncountable

Definition 2:
• An accumulation of small items of little current value -- materials, broken items, miscellaneous fasteners -- for possible future use.
Labels: Maine, US, uncountable

Definition 3:
• Junk or debris.
Labels: Maine, US, uncountable
Verb
Pronunciation: /kʌlt͡ʃ/

Definition 1:
• To prepare an oyster bed with such (culch) attachments; to sort shellfish or fish catch by size -- most often oysters -- so as to throw back the smallest to grow bigger and breed.

Source and attribution
Wiktionary contributors, via Kaikki/Wiktextract. Derived from Wiktionary; CC BY-SA and GFDL terms apply. Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/culch