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Definition of Bowsed
1. bowse [v] - See also: bowse
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bowsed
Literary usage of Bowsed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"... and bowsed away until the book was well entered; when these tackles were ...
and all lying back at the chorus, we bowsed the tackles home, and drove the ..."
2. The Arena by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1904)
"We bowsed him a bord a wyn and a make The ben dell stood at the garden gate, ...
we bowsed ane more groat, Jack milled the dell, bore her board of his boat! ..."
3. Down Channel: With Introduction by Dixon Kemp by Richard Turrill McMullen (1893)
"... and into the cringle of the second reef, and bowsed it aft; jammed the fall,
while I lightened up the foot of the sail, and bowsed aft again until it ..."
4. Two Years Before the Mast, and Twenty-four Years After: A Personal Narrative by Richard Henry Dana (1869)
"... the falls of the tackles were stretched forward, and all hands tallied on,
and bowsed away upon them until the book was well entered, when these tackles ..."
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