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bowses

bowses is the third-person singular simple present indicative of bowse.

Meaning of bowse

Verb (1)

bowse (third-person singular simple present bowses, present participle bowsing, simple past and past participle bowsed)

  1. (archaic) To drink excessively and socially; to carouse.
    • O generous food!
      Drest as though bold Robin Hood,
      Would, with his maid Marian,
      Sup and bowse from horn and can.1820, John Keats, “Lines on the Mermaid Tavern”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC, page 131

Verb (2)

bowse (third-person singular simple present bowses, present participle bowsing, simple past and past participle bowsed)

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

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Questions about bowses

What is bowses the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Bowses is the third-person singular simple present indicative of bowse.

Words near bowses in the dictionary

  1. bowsaws
  2. bowse
  3. bowsed
  4. bowser
  5. bowsers
  6. bowses
  7. Bowsher
  8. Bowshers
  9. bowshock
  10. bowshocks
  11. bowshot

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bowses (page history and authors); bowse (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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