'brachet' definitions:
Definition of 'brachet'
From: GCIDE
- brachet \brachet\, (br[a^]ch), n. same as bratchet. [Century Dict. 1906]
Definition of 'brachet'
From: GCIDE
- 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]