bratchet /(brăch"ĕt)/
bratch·et
bratchet
n.
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a kind of hound; a brach; -- applied contemptuously to a child. See also brach.
The bratchet's bay
From the dark covert drove the prey.
To be plagued with a bratchet whelp -- Whence came ye, my fair-favoured little gossip? .