paroch

• IPA^(key): /ˈpæɹət͡ʃ/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): [ˈp(ʰ)äɾətʃ]

paroch (plural paroches)

1. (obsolete, Scotland) Alternative form of parish
   • 1703, John Welch, Fifty and Two Directions, Written by That Famous, and Eminently Faithful Servant of Jesus Christ, Mr. John Welch, To his Paroch at Irongray‎^[1], page 6:

     Dear Friends, Ye know by the Laws of the Land we were put unto a neceſſity either to comply with Episcopacy contrary to out covenanted Ingagements, or to be no more permitted to Labour amongſt you, being by an Act of the Council baniſhed out of the Paroch and Presbytery […]

   • 1849, Michael Anderson, The Scottish Jurist: Containing Reports of Cases Decided in the House of Lords, Courts of Session, Teinds, and Exchequer, and the Jury and Justiciary Courts, Volume 21‎^[2], page 294:

     "The next statute is that of 1663, c. 16, Dear which proceeds on the recital of the 'seventh act of the sixth parliament Of his Majestie's royall grandfather, King James the Sixth of happy memory, ordaining the names of the poor of ilk paroch, and such as must be necessarily sustained by alms, to be taken up, and to tax and stint the persons with in the paroch […]

   • 1911, The Register of the Privy Council of Scotland: 1673-1676‎^[3], H.M. General Register House, page 104:

     […] libertie to them of preaching in the paroch kirkes and receaveing their partes of the stipends, and particularly the persons underwrytten were appointed to repair to and be confyned to the particular paroches after specifeit […]

• Chopra, car hop, car-hop, carhop, coprah