bough
11Bough — Recorded in the spellings of Bow, Bowe, and Bough, this is usually a surname of English origins. There are at least three possible sources. The first is that it is a metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of bows, a vital trade in… …
12bough — n. 1) a slender bough 2) boughs sway in the breeze * * * [baʊ] a slender bough boughs sway in the breeze …
13bough — [[t]ba͟ʊ[/t]] boughs N COUNT A bough is a large branch of a tree. [LITERARY] I rested my fishing rod against a pine bough …
14bough — UK [baʊ] / US noun [countable] Word forms bough : singular bough plural boughs mainly literary a big branch on a tree …
15bough — [[t]baʊ[/t]] n. bot a branch of a tree, esp. one of the larger branches • Etymology: bef. 1000; ME bogh, OE bōg, bōh, bough bough′less, adj …
16bough — noun Etymology: Middle English, shoulder, bough, from Old English bōg; akin to Old High German buog shoulder, Greek pēchys forearm Date: before 12th century a branch of a tree; especially a main branch • boughed adjective …
17bough — boughless, adj. /bow/, n. a branch of a tree, esp. one of the larger or main branches. [bef. 1000; ME bogh, OE bog, boh shoulder, bough; c. ON bogr, D boeg, G Bug, Gk pêchys, Skt bahu] Syn. 1. See branch. * * * …
18bough — [OE] Bough is a word of some antiquity, dispersed far and wide throughout the Indo European languages, but it is only in English that it has come to mean ‘branch’. It comes ultimately from an Indo European *bhāghūs; the meaning this had is not… …
19bough — [baʊ] noun a main branch of a tree. Origin OE bōg, bōh bough or shoulder , of Gmc origin; related to bow3 …
20bough — /baʊ / (say bow) noun 1. a branch of a tree, especially one of the larger of the main branches. 2. Archaic the gallows. {Middle English; Old English bōg, bōh shoulder, bough} –boughless, adjective …
