orchet
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[edit]Noun
[edit]orchet (plural orchets)
- (UK, dialect, archaic) orchard
- 1898, Thomas Hardy, 'The Fire at Tranter Sweatley's' in Wessex Poems and Other Verses, Harper & Brothers (1899), page 188:
- Till he comes to the orchet, when crooping thereright
- In the lewth of a codlin-tree, bivering wi’ fright,
- Wi’ on’y her night-rail to screen her from sight,
- His lonesome young Barbree appears.
- 1898, Thomas Hardy, 'The Fire at Tranter Sweatley's' in Wessex Poems and Other Verses, Harper & Brothers (1899), page 188: