bratchet

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bratchet - 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]