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Synonyms for bough

Grammar : Noun
Spell : bou
Phonetic Transcription : baʊ

Définition of bough

Origin :
  • Old English bog "shoulder, arm," extended in Old English to "twig, branch" (cf. limb (n.1)), from Proto-Germanic *bogaz (cf. Old Norse bogr "shoulder," Old High German buog, German Bug "shoulder, hock, joint"), from PIE *bhagus "elbow, forearm" (cf. Sanskrit bahus "arm," Armenian bazuk, Greek pakhys "forearm"). The "limb of a tree" sense is peculiar to English.
  • noun branch
Example sentences :
  • So he took a bough of fir, thick-set with little twigs, and tied the kill on that.
  • Extract from : « The Trail Book » by Mary Austin
  • Nay, he would not be butchered like a bird on a bough, he would fall fighting.
  • Extract from : « Fair Margaret » by H. Rider Haggard
  • Did you see those two birds fly away from that bough, sudden-like?
  • Extract from : « The Rock of Chickamauga » by Joseph A. Altsheler
  • The seventh of these hath a bough which shoots over the boundary wall.
  • Extract from : « Micah Clarke » by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • They bent down the bough and picked it, and then allowed it to fly up again.
  • Extract from : « The Chinese Fairy Book » by Various
  • That bough there tires me with its waving and its rising, as if it was alive.
  • Extract from : « Abbe Mouret's Transgression » by Emile Zola
  • And from tree to tree, and from bough to bough, vine branches hung in confusion.
  • Extract from : « Abbe Mouret's Transgression » by Emile Zola
  • It appeared that “Flintergill” had been sawing off the bough on which he was standing.
  • Extract from : « Adventures and Recollections » by Bill o'th' Hoylus End
  • It matters not much what part of the bough the twig growes out of.
  • Extract from : « A New Orchard And Garden » by William Lawson
  • A small branch will become a bough, and a bough an arme in bignesse.
  • Extract from : « A New Orchard And Garden » by William Lawson

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