boun
Americanverb (used with or without object)
Etymology
Origin of boun
Middle English; see bound 4
Example Sentences
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Len Unger finds the boun a boon for he is an excellent ele phant rider.
From Time Magazine Archive
Said the King to his daughters three; "For I to Vanity Fair am boun, Now say what shall they be?"
From Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two by Various
And when the fresh knights they were made, To battle they busk them boun; James Douglas went before, And he thought to have won him shoon.
From Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Third Series by Sidgwick, Frank
Then boun they to faring, the bark biding quiet; Hung upon hawser the wide-fathom'd ship Fast at her anchor.
From The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats by Anonymous
This is too gude a day, my lord,75 To gang sae far frae town; This is too gude a day, my lord, On field to make you boun'.
From English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) by Various
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