bough

  • 21bough — [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… …

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  • 22bough|pot — «BOW POT», noun. 1. a pot or other vessel for holding boughs or flowers for ornament. 2. a flowerpot. 3. a bouquet …

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  • 23bough-wough — var. form of bow wow …

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  • 24Bough Beech — infobox UK place country = England official name=Bough Beech static static image caption= latitude=51.201200 longitude=0.129320 population = civil parish= shire district=Sevenoaks shire county= Kent region= South East England constituency… …

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  • 25bough — to cover a flake (q.v.) with conifer branches to allow air circulation for drying of the fish (Newfoundland) …

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  • 26bough — noun /baʊ/ A firm branch of a tree …

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  • 27bough — Synonyms and related words: appendage, arm, bine, branch, branchedness, branchiness, burgeon, deadwood, flagellum, fork, frond, hand, imp, joint, leg, limb, link, lobe, lobule, member, offshoot, organ, pinion, ramage, ramification, runner,… …

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  • 28bough — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. limb, branch. See part. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. branch, limb, arm; see branch 2 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. limb, branch …

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  • 29bough — bow …

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  • 30bough — sb. [bowe]. RG. 283. [boye], O. and N. 15 …

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