Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
bratchet .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun same as
bratchet .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A female hunting
hound that hunts byscent .
Etymologies
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Examples
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How Sir Tor rode after the knight with the brachet, and of his adventure by the way.
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And therewith he rode after the brachet, and he saw lie on the ground a large feute of blood.
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How Sir Tor rode after the knight with the brachet, and of his adventure by the way.
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Arthur to Guenever, a white hart came into the hall, and thirty couple hounds, and how a brachet pinched the hart which was taken away.
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NOW leave we there and speak of Sir Launcelot that rode a great while in a deep forest, where he saw a black brachet, seeking in manner as it had been in the feute of an hurt deer.
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How Sir Launcelot followed a brachet into a castle, where he found a dead knight, and how he after was required of a damosel to heal her brother.
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Thus, when the quest was done of the white hart, the which followed Sir Gawaine; and the quest of the brachet, followed of Sir
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How King Mark found Sir Tristram naked, and made him to be borne home to Tintagil, and how he was there known by a brachet.
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Then were they ware of the hart that lay on a great water bank, and a brachet biting on his throat, and more other hounds came after.
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WHEN Sir Tor was ready, he mounted upon his horseback, and rode after the knight with the brachet.
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