brach

British  

/ brætʃ /

noun

1. archaic a bitch hound

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Etymology

Origin of brach

C14: back formation from brachez hunting dogs, from Old French, plural of brachet , of Germanic origin; compare Old High German braccho hound

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Example Sentences

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brach

His heart cried out within him the way a brach with whelps between her legs would howl and bristle at a stranger—so the hackles of his heart rose at that laughter.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

I’m proud of my father as he cares for dog and brach.

From "Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village" by Laura Amy Schlitz

Then spake Lord Siegfried: "I need no dogs save one brach that hath been trained that he can tell the track of the beasts through the pine woods."

From The Nibelungenlied by Daniel Bussier Shumway

The spearman heard the bugle sound, And cheerily smiled the morn; And many a brach, and many a hound, Attend Llewellyn's horn.

From The Illustrated London Reading Book by Various

I have frequently witnessed this stratagem, and when, during my kitchen dinner, I suddenly hear the dogs yelping after the brach hound has begun, I am pretty sure that nobody is in sight.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 841, February 13, 1892 by Various

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