Bough – definition
Usage examples:
Apple boughs laden with blossom
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Word origin
Old English bōg, bōh ‘bough or shoulder’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch boeg ‘shoulders or ship's bow’, German Bug ‘ship's bow’ and ‘horse's hock or shoulder’, also to bow3.
Bough synonims
Each of the two upper limbs of the human body from the shoulder to the hand.
Usage examples:
She held the baby in her arms
Supply or provide with weapons.
Usage examples:
The security forces are armed with automatic rifles
Either of the two long parts of the upper body that are joined to the shoulders and have hands at the end
Usage examples:
Her arm was bandaged from elbow to wrist., he held his young son in his arms (= closely)., the arm …
A part of a tree which grows out from the trunk or from a bough.
Usage examples:
Sophie was in the branches of a tree eating an apple
(of a road or path) divide into one or more subdivisions.
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Follow this track south until it branches into two
An arm or leg of a person or four-legged animal, or a bird's wing.
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They got out, stretching their cramped limbs
The edge of the disc of a celestial object, especially the sun or moon.
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The eastern limb of the moon
An arm or leg of a person or animal, or an animal’s wing
A side shoot or branch on a plant.
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Pistia stratiotes l. is a free-floating aquatic angiosperm that can reproduce rapidly by vegetative…
A small stem bearing leaves or flowers, taken from a plant.
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A sprig of holly
Decorate (pottery) with small, separately moulded designs.
A small tapering tack with no head, used chiefly to hold glass in a window frame until the putty dries.
A device with a small spike or a spiked wheel that is worn on a rider's heel and used for urging a horse forward.
Usage examples:
Jacobs said he used the spurs to control the horse and that any force he used was to control the ho…
Urge (a horse) forward by digging one's spurs into its sides.
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She spurred her horse towards the hedge
To encourage an activity or development, or to cause something to develop faster
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The huge new factory spurred economic growth in the entire region., the team's win on saturday will…
A slender woody shoot growing from a branch or stem of a tree or shrub.
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Sound wave vibrations are absorbed by leaves, branches and twigs of trees and shrubs.
Understand or realize something.
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It was amazing that graham hadn't twigged before