brach

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Etymology [edit]

Originally in plural, from Old French brachez, plural of brachet, a diminutive of Occitan brac, from Frankish. Cognate to the German Bracke.

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brach (plural braches)

  1. (archaic) A hound, especially a female hound used for hunting.
    • 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear III.vi:
      Mastiff, greyhound, mongrel grim, / Hound or spaniel, brach or him.
    • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, NYRB 2001, vol. 1 p. 331:
      A sow-pig by chance sucked a brach, and when she was grown, “would miraculously hunt all manner of deer, and that as well, or rather better than any ordinary hound.”

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German [edit]

Pronunciation [edit]

  • IPA: /bʀaːx/

Verb [edit]

brach

  1. First-person singular preterite of brechen.
  2. Third-person singular preterite of brechen.

Adjective [edit]

brach (not comparable)

  1. fallow

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