Obs. or dial. [Cf. BRACKY.] Brackish. (In Chandler, perh. ‘of alkaline taste’]
1662. J. Chandler, Van Helmont’s Oriat., 158. Writers have distinguished … Odours, and Savours, as sweet, bitter, salt, sharp, breachy, soure.
1875. Parish, Sussex Gloss. (E. D. S.), Breachy, brackish, applied to water.
