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Brach vs Bough - What's the difference?

brach | bough |

As nouns the difference between brach and bough

is that brach is curdled milk, sour milk while bough is a firm branch of a tree.

brach

English

Noun

(es)
  • (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.
  • *, 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.”

    See also

    * brachet

    Anagrams

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    bough

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A firm branch of a tree.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet: or anon we shot into a clearing, with a colored glimpse of the lake and its curving shore far below us.}}
  • * 2013 , . Melbourne, Australia: The Text Publishing Company. chapter 18. p. 172.
    • A pair of birds settle on the bough above them, murmuring together, ready to roost.

    Derived terms

    * (l)