bratchet

bratchet (brach"et) , noun

[Sc. also bratchart; from Middle English brachet, from Old French brachet; ML. brachetus, dim. of brache a hound. See brach.]

a kind of hound; a brach; -- applied contemptuously to a child. See also brach.

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)