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orchets

orchets is the plural of orchet.

Meaning of orchet

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

Questions about orchets

What is orchets the plural of?
Orchets is the plural of orchet.

Words near orchets in the dictionary

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

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