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Definition of Bowse
1. Verb. Haul with a tackle.
Definition of Bowse
1. v. i. To carouse; to bouse; to booze.
2. n. A carouse; a drinking bout; a booze.
Definition of Bowse
1. Verb. (archaic) To drink excessively and socially. ¹
2. Verb. (nautical) To haul or hoist (something) with a tackle. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bowse
1. to bouse [v BOWSED, BOWSING, BOWSES] - See also: bouse
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bowse
Literary usage of Bowse
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine by Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) (1913)
""It 's Mrs. bowse again, and she 's brought Miss Hutchinson down with her ...
Mrs. bowse thinks you ought to go right to bed and have something hot to drink ..."
2. Memorials of the Abbey of St. Mary of Fountains. by John Richard Walbran, Joseph Thomas Fowler, James Raine (1863)
"... plate, principal ornamenta of every suche bowse, they shal reserve the same to be
... the salde Commissioners shall not only, at every suche bowse, ..."
3. Musa Pedestris: Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes (1536-1896) by John Stephen Farmer (1896)
"She sings: —] This is bien bowse, this is bien bowse, «trong aio Too little is
my skew. cup or putter I bowse no lage, but a whole gage water; ..."
4. A Select Collection of Old Plays: In Twelve Volumes ; with Additional Notes by Isaac Reed, Robert Dodsley, Octavius Gilchrist, John Payne Collier (1826)
"This is ben bowse, this is ben bowse; Too little is my skew; / bowse no lage,
but a whole gage Of this I'll bowse to you. This bowse is better than ..."
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