bough
a branch of a tree, especially one of the larger or main branches.
Origin of bough
1synonym study For bough
Other words from bough
- boughless, adjective
- un·der·bough, noun
Words that may be confused with bough
- bough , bow
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How to use bough in a sentence
Deck your halls instead with boughs of holly, shouting “Merry Christmas” (or “Happy Hanukkah”) well into the night.
Franklin saw that it was now sucking up large dead boughs along with the leaves.
This their place of dwelling was only a fire, with a few boughs before it, set up on the side the winds was of.
Mr. Wakefield has built little houses for us, and put them on the boughs of the trees.
The Nursery, January 1873, Vol. XIII. | VariousDirectly the tents were erected and the girls beds made with a blanket spread over pine boughs, Valerie lay down utterly worn out.
The Adventure Girls at K Bar O | Clair Blank
As Gale and Phyllis lay down on their bed of boughs in the tent with Valerie, a coyote howled dismally in the distance.
The Adventure Girls at K Bar O | Clair BlankTherefore they now carried boughs and green branches and palms, for him that had given them good success in cleansing his place.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version | Various
British Dictionary definitions for bough
/ (baʊ) /
any of the main branches of a tree
Origin of bough
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