Meanings
nounbratchet (plural bratchets)
plural bratchets
- alternativeAlternative spelling of brachet (“a female hunting hound that hunts by scent; a brach”).
And foresters, in green-wood trim, / Lead in the leash the gaze-hounds grim, / Attentive, as the bratchet’s bay / From the dark covert drove the prey, / To slip them as he broke away.
1808 February 22, Walter Scott, “Introduction to Canto Second: To the Rev. John Marriot, M.A.”, in Marmion; a Tale of Flodden Field, Edinburgh: […] J[ames] Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Company, […]; London: William Miller, and John Murray, →OCLC, page 61
Origin
- Old Frenchbrachet“bitch, hound”
- Englishbratchet
From Scots, from Old French brachet (“bitch, hound”).
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