Bouse

Pronunciation varies by accent · verb

Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. (nautical) To haul or hoist (something) with a tackle.
2. (obsolete) to drink, especially alcoholic drink
3. (obsolete) a carouse; a booze
4. (obsolete) To drink immoderately; to carouse; to booze.

Example Sentences

Bien Darkmans then, Bouse Mort and Ken

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.

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

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• bouses
• bousing
• boused
• bowse

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