Brach vs Orach - What's the difference?
brach | orach |
(archaic) A hound, especially a female hound used for hunting.
* 1605 , William Shakespeare, King Lear III.vi :
*, NYRB 2001, vol.1 p.331:
The saltbush: any of several plants, of the genus Atriplex , especially , found in dry habitats, that have edible leaves resembling spinach.
As nouns the difference between brach and orach
is that brach is a hound, especially a female hound used for hunting while orach is the saltbush: any of several plants, of the genus Atriplex, especially species: Atriplex hortensis or species: Atriplex patula, found in dry habitats, that have edible leaves resembling spinach.brach
English
Noun
(es)- Mastiff, greyhound, mongrel grim, / Hound or spaniel, brach or him.
- 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.”
