Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A kind of hound; a brach: applied contemptuously to a child.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a kind of hound; a
brach ; -- applied contemptuously to a child. See alsobrach .
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Examples
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I could excuse the one, for I love a good horse naturally; but to be plagued with a bratchet whelp. —
Kenilworth 2004
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I could excuse the one, for I love a good horse naturally; but to be plagued with a bratchet whelp.
Kenilworth Walter Scott 1801
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