Definition of "brancher"

brancher¹

noun
plural branchers
1. That which shoots forth branches; one who shows growth in various directions.
2. (programming) That which branches, or jumps to another instruction location within a program.
  Quotations
  None of the brancher instructions have any effect whatsoever on any flags; instead, they are the instructions which look at the flags.
  1983, Richard Mansfield, Machine Language for Beginners, page 69
  This is pretty typical for a C-written brancher.
  1999, Mickey Kawick, Real-time Strategy Game Programming Using DirectX 6.0, page 37

brancher²

noun
plural branchers
1. (falconry) A young owl or other raptor that is just too young to fly.
  Quotations
  “What, ho! sir knave,” exclaimed Roland, “is it thus you feed the eyasse with unwashed meat, as if you were gorging the foul brancher of a worthless hoodie-crow, by the mass? […]”
  1820, [Walter Scott], chapter IV, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], page 83