Definition of bough

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Bough (n.) A gallows.

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Wicket :: Wicket (n.) A place of shelter made of the boughs of trees, -- used by lumbermen, etc..
Branch :: Branch (n.) A shoot or secondary stem growing from the main stem, or from a principal limb or bough of a tree or other plant..
Cost :: Cost (v. t.) The amount paid, charged, or engaged to be paid, for anything bought or taken in barter; charge; expense; hence, whatever, as labor, self-denial, suffering, etc., is requisite to secure benefit..
Wike :: Wike (n.) A temporary mark or boundary, as a bough of a tree set up in marking out or dividing anything, as tithes, swaths to be mowed in common ground, etc.; -- called also wicker..
Striking :: Striker (n.) A blackmailer in politics; also, one whose political influence can be bought..
Price :: Price (n. & v.) The sum or amount of money at which a thing is valued, or the value which a seller sets on his goods in market; that for which something is bought or sold, or offered for sale; equivalent in money or other means of exchange; current value or rate paid or demanded in market or in barter; cost..
Purchasable :: Purchasable (a.) Capable of being bought, purchased, or obtained for a consideration; hence, venal; corrupt..
Pennyworth :: Pennyworth (n.) A penny's worth; as much as may be bought for a penny.
Blink :: Blink (pl.) Boughs cast where deer are to pass, to turn or check them..
Bargain :: Bargain (n.) The thing stipulated or purchased; also, anything bought cheap..
Nuthook :: Nuthook (n.) A hook at the end of a pole to pull down boughs for gathering the nuts.
Bought :: Bought (n.) A flexure; a bend; a twist; a turn; a coil, as in a rope; as the boughts of a serpent..
Corkage :: Corkage (n.) The charge made by innkeepers for drawing the cork and taking care of bottles of wine bought elsewhere by a guest.
Booth :: Booth (n.) A house or shed built of boards, boughs, or other slight materials, for temporary occupation..
Boughten :: Boughten (a.) Purchased; not obtained or produced at home.
Bower :: Bower (n.) A shelter or covered place in a garden, made with boughs of trees or vines, etc., twined together; an arbor; a shady recess..
Badger :: Badger (n.) An itinerant licensed dealer in commodities used for food; a hawker; a huckster; -- formerly applied especially to one who bought grain in one place and sold it in another.
Brash :: Brash (n.) Refuse boughs of trees; also, the clippings of hedges..
Ramage :: Ramage (n.) Boughs or branches.
Ris :: Ris (n.) A bough or branch; a twig.
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