boke
Britishverb
noun
Etymology
Origin of boke
Middle English bolken ; related to belch , German bölken to roar
Example Sentences
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To use vernacular that our Scottish readers will no doubt be familiar with, it's enough to give you the boke.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 1, 2013
The boke that is callid Festiuall; 1486, fol. sign. m. iij.
From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall
This gode lityll boke, written by Canutus, Bishop of Aarhaus, was printed in London about 1482 by Machlinia.
From The Story of Books by Rawlings, Gertrude Burford
Other wise loke not to receiue by this boke that good which I entend, but that euel which by your owne foly you vndiscretelye bring.
From The Sweating Sickness A boke or counseill against the disease commonly called the sweate or sweatyng sicknesse by Caius, John
But had he looked into the Troy boke of Lydgate, instead of puzzling himself with Dares Phrygius, he would have found the horrid demolition to have been neither the work of Shakespeare nor his Editors.
From Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare by Smith, David Nichol
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