bratch

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bratch - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  brach \brach\, brache \brache\(br[a^]k or br[a^]ch), n. [OE.
     brache a kind of scenting hound or setting dog, OF. brache,
     F. braque, fr. OHG. braccho, G. bracke; related to Sw. brack
     a dog that hunts by scent; possibly akin to E. fragrant, fr.
     L. fragrare to smell.]
     A bitch of the hound kind. See also bratchet. --Shak. [Also
     spelled bratch when pronounced (br[a^]ch).]
     [1913 Webster + Century Dict. 1906]
  
           A sow pig by chance sucked a brach, and when she was
           grown would miraculously hunt all manner of deer.
                                                    --Burton
                                                    (Anatomy of
                                                    Melancholy).
     [Century Dict. 1906]