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Definition of Bowses
1. bowse [v] - See also: bowse
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bowses
Literary usage of Bowses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Suffolk Deeds by Suffolk County (Mass.), John Tyler Hassam (1880)
"June 19th or 22d, 1650:— "It is ordred by this Courte & the authoritie thereof,
that henceforth any graunt, sale, bargan, or morgage of bowses, lands, ..."
2. The Manuscripts of the Marquis of Ormonde, Preserved at the Castle, Kilkenny by John Thomas Gilbert (1895)
"4 Vickers' bowses, emptie, besides munie others where the better sort are gone
away and left none but poore people to keepe the ..."
3. Miscellanea by Surtees Society (1861)
"The iron gunne aliso playd once up into • the towne into the bowses neare to ...
and through those bowses, but what hurt was done we know not, ..."
4. Field Genealogy: Being the Record of All the Field Family in America, Whose by Frederick Clifton Pierce (1901)
"As bowses, and Barne and Barnes, or out howsen goeing under what name so Ever
... the land with the Said bowses: As also I doe give unto my Said wife ..."
5. The Injunctions and Other Ecclesiastical Proceedings of Richard Barnes by Church of England Diocese of Durham. Bishop (1577-1587 : Barnes), James Raine (1850)
"... any women in his or their bowses or howse, other then suche as ar allowed by
... any of them do hante or frequente any comon tavernes or aile bowses, ..."
6. Norfolk Archaeology, Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to the Antiquities of (1888)
"... a long tyme by the multitude of ale bowses and for redresse thereto yor wo :
hath resolved beside or twoe Innés to pmit no more but three Ale ..."
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