Sc. Also 6 brechome, 8 brechan, brechem, brechom. [by metathesis f. bercham, bergham, ME. berhom: see BARGHAM.] The collar of a draught-horse.
1501. Douglas, Pal. Hon., 426. Raw silk brechamis ouir thair halsis hingis.
1566. Inventories, 171 (Jam.). Auld brechomes and hernes.
1756. Mrs. Calderwood, Jrnl. (1884), 67. A sort of brecham about their necks.
1792. Statist. Act. Scotl., IV. 395. The straw brecham is supplanted by the leather collar.
1818. Scott, Hrt. Midl., v. Ye have set yoursell down on the very brecham that wants stitching.
1883. Glasgow Her., 31 Aug., 4/1. In the pulpit he wears a black cassock with a collar which rises high and stiff at the back of his neck, resembling somewhat a horse’s ‘brecham.’
