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bowssens

bowssens is the third-person singular simple present indicative of bowssen.

Meaning of bowssen

Verb

bowssen (third-person singular simple present bowssens, present participle bowssening, simple past and past participle bowssened)

  1. (Cornwall, obsolete) To dunk or immerse (into water, for remedial purposes).
    • There were many bowssening places, for curing of mad men.1609, Richard Carew, “The Second Booke”, in The Survey of Cornwall, London: […] S[imon] S[tafford] for Iohn Iaggard, […], →OCLC, folio 123, recto

Questions about bowssens

What is bowssens the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Bowssens is the third-person singular simple present indicative of bowssen.

Words near bowssens in the dictionary

  1. bowsprits
  2. bowspritted
  3. bowssen
  4. bowssened
  5. bowssening
  6. bowssens
  7. bowstave
  8. bowstaves
  9. bowster
  10. bowsters
  11. bowstring

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