boke
boak or bock
Scot
- to retch or vomit
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- a retch; vomiting fit
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Word Origin
Middle English bolken; related to belch, German bölken to roar
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Examples from the Web for boke
Historical Examples
By my fayth (sayde he), thou shall swere so vpon this boke; and helde to her a boke.
Shakespeare Jest-Books;Unknown
So she toke the boke in her hande and sayd: By this boke, syr, ye be a cokolde.
Shakespeare Jest-Books;Unknown
Eleven shillings were paid for the “Boke of Chivalrie” by Caxton.
The LibraryAndrew Lang
In what place this Boke was translate and to what purpose it was translatyd.
The Ship of Fools, Volume 1Sebastian Brandt
The handelynge whereof Tulli wryteth in his boke of inuencion thus.
The Art or Crafte of RhetorykeLeonard Cox