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Definition of Bouse
1. Verb. Haul with a tackle.
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
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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