Bouse

Quick meaning: Bouse is a verb meaning (nautical) To haul or hoist (something) with a tackle.

Meaning

(nautical) To haul or hoist (something) with a tackle.

More Meanings

1. (obsolete) to drink, especially alcoholic drink
2. (obsolete) a carouse; a booze
3. (obsolete) To drink immoderately; to carouse; to booze.

Example Sentences

Bien Darkmans then, Bouse Mort and Ken

you do provide me hum enough , And lour to bouse with

Six-and-twenty years of prison; the first seventeen years of it strict and hard, almost of the dungeon sort; the remainder, on his fairly abdicating, was in another Castle, that of Callundborg in the Island of Zealand, 'with fine apartments and conveniences,' and even 'a good bouse of liquor now and then,' at discretion of the old soul.

Word Forms

• bouses
• bousing
• boused

Synonyms for bouse

Depending on context, synonyms include bowse.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include bowse, boxhaul, bolk, haul, uphaul, heave-ho.

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