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Brack vs Brach - What's the difference?

brack | brach |

As nouns the difference between brack and brach

is that brack is (obsolete) salt or brackish water or brack can be an opening caused by the parting of a solid body; a crack or breach while brach is curdled milk, sour milk.

brack

English

Etymology 1

(etyl) brac.

Noun

(-)
  • (obsolete) Salt or brackish water.
    • (Drayton)

    Etymology 2

    Compare (etyl) braak.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An opening caused by the parting of a solid body; a crack or breach.
  • * J. Fletcher
    • Stain or brack in her sweet reputation.
    (Webster 1913) ----

    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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