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orchet

orchet noun: orchard.

Noun

orchet (plural orchets)

  1. (UK, archaic, dialectal) orchard
    • 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

Forms of orchet

pluralorchets

Questions about orchet

What does orchet mean?
Orchet means orchard.
What part of speech is orchet?
Orchet is a noun.
What is the plural of orchet?
The plural of orchet is orchets.

Words near orchet in the dictionary

  1. orchestric
  2. orchestrina
  3. orchestrinas
  4. orchestrion
  5. orchestrions
  6. orchet
  7. orchets
  8. orchi
  9. orchialgia
  10. orchic
  11. orchid

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