Rache, also spelled racch, rach, and ratch, from Old English ræcc, linked to Old Norse rakkí, is an obsolete name for a type of hunting dog used in Great Britain in the Middle Ages. It was a scenthound used in a pack to run down and kill game, or bring it to bay. The word appears before the Norman Conquest. It was sometimes confused with 'brache', which is a French derived word for a female scenthound.
Developed in the rural and forested areas of medieval Great Britain.
The Rache was an early type of scenthound used in medieval Great Britain, particularly valued for its hunting skills. Raches were known to work in packs, tracking game by scent and either bringing it to bay or running it down. Over time, the term fell out of use and the breed itself became extinct, with no modern equivalent.
Raches (and a greyhound) pursuing the hart from Livre de la Chasse, a 15th-century MS of Gaston Phoebus
Raches killing a wild boar
The Scottish Rache
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