Apt to break through fences. Eng. dial.
1800. McKinney’s horses were breachy.—Addison, ‘Law Reports,’ p. 258. (N.E.D.)
1846. It appeared that the gentleman from whom I had bought them was a man given to practical jokes, and had sold me a yoke of ‘breachy’ oxen, notorious for their deeds throughout the settlement.—Knick. Mag., xxviii. 343 (Oct.).
1846.
| Pledges air awfle breachy cattle | |
| Thet preudunt farmers don’t turn out,— | |
| Ez long ’z the people git their rattle, | |
| Wut is there fer ’m to grout about? | |
Lowell, ‘Biglow Papers,’ No. 7. |
