Definition of Bouse

1. Verb. Haul with a tackle.

Exact synonyms: Bowse
Generic synonyms: Cart, Drag, Hale, Haul

Definition of Bouse

1. v. i. To drink immoderately; to carouse; to booze. See Booze.

2. n. Drink, esp. alcoholic drink; also, a carouse; a booze.

Definition of Bouse

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

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Bouse

1. to haul by means of a tackle [v BOUSED, BOUSING, BOUSES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bouse

bourns
bourree
bourrees
bourrelet
bourrelets
bourride
bourrides
bourse
bourses
boursier
boursiers
boursin
boursins
bourtree
bourtrees
bouse (current term)
boused
bouser
bousers
bouses
bousier
bousiest
bousing
bousouki
bousoukia
bousoukis
boussingaultite
boustrophedon
boustrophedonic
boustrophedons

Literary usage of Bouse

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1904)
"An open piazza in front of a dwelling house and attached to it is not a house, nor can it be a dwelling house. it may lu attached to the bouse, and may in ..."

2. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett, David Jardine by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett, David Jardine (1816)
"Do you remember any body else that Uj ¡a the bouse?—There was Fortune Natus uJ his wife lay in aplace where there is a tut deal of hay. ..."

3. Harper's Dictionary of Classical Literature and Antiquities by Harry Thurston Peck (1897)
"... of i lie bouse kept. Tlie cut given below represents a key found at Pompeii, aud DOW in the Museum of Naples, the size of which indicates that it. was ..."

4. The Boston Directory (1862)
"37 Main Schulz Emil, hairdresser, Parker Houe, ta» house 28 Chelsea, East Boston Schwartz Simon, shoemaker, bouse 36 Crw Schwarz Jacob, hairdresser, ..."

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