bratchet

CIDE DICTIONARY

bratchet, 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. [Century Dict. 1906]

"The bratchet's bay
From the dark covert drove the prey." [Century Dict. 1906]

"To be plagued with a bratchet whelp -- Whence came ye, my fair-favoured little gossip? ." [Century Dict. 1906]