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Brach vs Broch - What's the difference?

brach | broch |

As nouns the difference between brach and broch

is that brach is curdled milk, sour milk while broch is breakage.

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

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    broch

    English

    (wikipedia broch)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaeology) A type of Iron Age stone tower with hollow double-skinned walls found on Orkney and Shetland and parts of the Scottish mainland.
  • * 1933 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Cloud Howe'', Polygon 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), p. 268:
    • Finella's carles builded the Kaimes, a long line of battlements under the hills, midway a tower that was older still, a broch from the days of the Pictish men […].
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