orchet

English

Noun

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.

Anagrams

Hector, Troche, hector, rochet, rotche, tocher, troche

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