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nounorchet (plural orchets)
plural orchets
- UKarchaicdialectalorchard
Till he comes to the orchet, when crooping thereright In the lewth of a codlin-tree, bivering wi’ fright, Wi’ on’y her night-rail to screen her from sight, His lonesome young Barbree appears.
1898, Thomas Hardy, 'The Fire at Tranter Sweatley's' in Wessex Poems and Other Verses, Harper & Brothers (1899), page 188
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APA
orchet. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/orchet
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“orchet.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/orchet. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “orchet,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/orchet.
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