bough
noun
a branch of a tree, especially one of the larger or main branches.
boughless
-
a word derived from
bough.
Example Sentences
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Drawn by the sea, he took his way through the dim solemn boughless wood, as if to keep a moonlight tryst with his early love.
From The Marquis of Lossie by George MacDonald
I have been a lonely man; a boughless, leafless trunk, shaken by the winter winds.
From The End of the World A Love Story by Edward Eggleston
