Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Nautical, to drop off from the wind; edge away to leeward with the wind, as some vessels of inferior sailing qualities do.
  • noun An acanthopterygian fish, Box vulgaris, of the family Sparidæ, found in the Mediterranean, on the west coast of Africa, and in rare cases on the coasts of Britain.
  • noun A mouth; an embouchure.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • intransitive verb (Naut.) To fall off from the wind; to edge away to leeward; -- said only of inferior craft.
  • noun (Zoöl.) The boce; -- called also bogue bream. See boce.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A species of sea bream native to the eastern Atlantic, Boops boops.
  • noun Bayou, waterway.

Etymologies

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From Cajun French, from Choctaw bok ("creek, stream").

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  • a kind of fish

    October 28, 2008