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Rache

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A “setter,” or rather a dog said to hunt wild beasts, birds, and even fishes by scent. The female was called a brachei.e. bitch-rache. (Saxon, ræcc; French, braque.)

“A leyshe of ratches to renne an hare.”—Skelton: Magnificence

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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