Definition of "cotch"

cotch¹

verb
third-person singular simple present cotches, present participle cotching, simple past and past participle caught or cotched or (obsolete) cotch
1. Pronunciation spelling of catch.
  Quotations
  Blast his sowl--that hunter I mane, an' if iver I cotch him, may I be used for a flail if I don't settle his accounts."
  1911, Edward S. Ellis, The Lost Trail‎
  "Dey come here for to cotch young massa George Le Dell, 'cause dey knowed he would be shore for to come here."
  1892, Harry Castlemon, Frank on a Gun-Boat‎
  Youse bettah look out, honey, or dey'll cotch youalls, shuah!"
  1914, Various, Dew Drops Vol. 37. No. 17, April 26, 1914‎
  Mas'r Sumner an' a'heap mo' on 'em would jes' like fur to kill dat Mas'r Dayton ef dey could cotch him.
  1880, Martha Lewis Beckwith Ewell, The Harvest of Years‎
  But one ting ish goot; dey cotch de murterer."
  1901, John Hay, The Bread-winners‎
  Ye mought hev cotch the smallpox.
  1911, Charles Egbert Craddock (aka Mary Noailles Murfree), The Raid Of The Guerilla‎
  "Well, we've cotch them any how," said the urchin, as he disengaged himself from his wet saddle, and stood upon the ground; "and it is not my fault that the coach is not before us."
  1839, Charles James Lever, The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Vol. 2‎

cotch²

verb
third-person singular simple present cotches, present participle cotching, simple past and past participle cotched
1. (Jamaica, slang, intransitive) To hang out or chill out.
2. (Jamaica, intransitive) To prop, lean, rest.
  Quotations
  She gestures toward the crème with her chin, an action that she has seen the women in the shop do when they place their orders, their confidence evident in the way they stand, leaning with all their weight on the counter, one leg cotched on the back of the other.
  2016, Nicole Dennis-Benn, chapter 1, in Here Comes the Sun