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Definition of Branchers
1. brancher [n] - See also: brancher
Lexicographical Neighbors of Branchers
Literary usage of Branchers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1876)
"And so the daily round of labour goes on until the young birds are " branchers,"
and the branchers have flown. sionally, their general disposition is more ..."
2. The Moor and the Loch: Containing Minute Instructions in All Highland Sports by John Colquhoun (1884)
"From the time they emerge from the wicker nursery, and are promoted to the
schoolroom as " branchers," the system of rook instruction begins. ..."
3. The Sportsman's Dictionary: Or The Gentleman's Companion: for Town and ...Sports (1800)
"... are called branchers ; but when ... The branchers of hawks are alfo called
ramage-fal- cons ..."
4. Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener and Country Gentlemen (1864)
"... become branchers ? and every one knows that the boldest branchers being clearest
from the nest fall most frequently to the rook-shooter's gun. ..."
5. An Only Son by William Kennedy (1832)
"... shot several in succession, as an expert marksman would bring down the branchers
in a rookery. He was crushed at last beneath a charge of cavalry, ..."
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