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boughts

boughts is the plural of bought.

Meaning of bought

Noun

bought (plural boughts)

  1. (obsolete) A bend; flexure; curve; a hollow angle.
  2. (obsolete) A bend or hollow in a human or animal body.
  3. (obsolete) A curve or bend in a river, mountain chain, or other geographical feature.
    • the river it selfe turneth North east and is stil a navigable streame. On the westerne side of this bought is Tauxenent with 40 men.1612, John Smith, Map of Virginia, Kupperman, published 1988, page 159
  4. (obsolete) The part of a sling that contains the stone.
  5. (obsolete) A fold, bend, or coil in a tail, snake's body etc.
    • Her huge long taile her den all ouerſpred, / Yet was in knots and many boughtes vpwound, / Pointed with mortall ſting.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 7

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Questions about boughts

What is boughts the plural of?
Boughts is the plural of bought.

Words near boughts in the dictionary

  1. boughtest
  2. Boughton
  3. Boughton Malherbe
  4. Boughton under Blean
  5. Boughtons
  6. boughts
  7. boughty
  8. boughy
  9. bougie
  10. bougienage
  11. bougienages

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