brachet

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
brachet \brachet\, (br[a^]ch), n.
   same as {bratchet}.
   [Century Dict. 1906]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
bratchet \bratch"et\, (br[a^]ch"[e^]t), n. [Sc. also bratchart;
   fr. ME. brachet, fr. OF. brachet; ML. brachetus, dim. of
   brache a hound. See {brach}.]
   a kind of hound; a {brach}; -- applied contemptuously to a
   child. See also {brach}. [Also spelled {brachet}.]
   [Century Dict. 1906]

         The bratchet's bay
         From the dark covert drove the prey.     --Scott,
                                                  (Marmion, ii.
                                                  int.).
   [Century Dict. 1906]

         To be plagued with a bratchet whelp -- Whence came ye,
         my fair-favoured little gossip? .        --Scott,
                                                  (Kenilworth,
                                                  II. xxi).
   [Century Dict. 1906]
    

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