The Collaborative International Dictionary
bratchet
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.]
The bratchet's bay
From the dark covert drove the prey.
--Scott,
(Marmion, ii.
int.).
To be plagued with a bratchet whelp -- Whence came ye,
my fair-favoured little gossip? .
--Scott,
(Kenilworth,
II. xxi).
[Century Dict. 1906] ||