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Quotation dates: 1815
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†BRATCHEL, n. “The husks of flax set on fire” (Highlands 1825 Jam.2).Sc. 1815 C. I. Johnstone Clan-Albin I. vi.:
She could not forbear expressing her unfeigned pity for the Lowlanders, whom, what are called flax-mills and fulling-mills precluded from all the social delights of beating and skutching, the blaze of a Bratchel, and above all, the superlative joys of a waulking.
