Middle English Dictionary Entry
brachet n.
Entry Info
| Forms | brachet n. |
| Etymology | OF |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. brache n.(1).
1.
A hunting dog; esp., a kind of small scenting hound.
Associated quotations
- [ ?1256 *Assize Roll 979 m.11b [OD col.] : Vidit queudam cauem Brachetum sequentem quandam Ceruam quam cepit. ]
- c1400(?c1390) Gawain (Nero A.10)1603 : Brachetes bayed þat best, as bidden þe maysterez.
- c1450 Ponthus (Dgb 185)113/17 : I dremed..that sett vpon me a grete whyte grehounde and a brachete.
- (a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)102/24,27 : There com rennynge inne a whyght herte into the hall, and a whyght brachet nexte hym..and as he wente by the syde-bourdis the brachet ever boote hym by the buttocke.
- (a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)278/20 : He sawe a blak brachette sekyng in maner as hit had bene in the feaute of an hurte dere.
- 1483 Cath.Angl.(Monson 168)39 : A Brachett [Add: brache]: oderensicus vel oderinsiquus.