orchet

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orchet (plural orchets)

  1. (UK, dialect, archaic) orchard
    • 1898, Thomas Hardy, 'The Fire at Tranter Sweatley's' in Wessex Poems and Other Verses, Harper & Brothers (1899), page 188:
      Till he comes to the orchet, when crooping thereright
      In the lewth of a codlin-tree, bivering wi’ fright,
      Wi’ on’y her night-rail to screen her from sight,
      His lonesome young Barbree appears.

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