Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To bend; fold; wind.
  • Preterit and past participle of buy.
  • noun A bend; flexure; curve; a hollow angle.
  • noun A bend or curve in a coast-line. See bight.
  • noun A bend, flexure, turn, loop, coil, or knot, as in a rope or chain, or in a serpent; a fold in cloth. See bout.
  • noun Same as bught.

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

  • imp. & p. p. of buy.
  • adjective Purchased; bribed.
  • noun obsolete A flexure; a bend; a twist; a turn; a coil, as in a rope; as the boughts of a serpent.
  • noun obsolete The part of a sling that contains the stone.

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

  • noun obsolete A bend; flexure; curve; a hollow angle.
  • noun obsolete A bend or hollow in a human or animal body.
  • noun obsolete A curve or bend in a river, mountain chain, or other geographical feature.
  • noun obsolete The part of a sling that contains the stone.
  • noun obsolete A fold, bend, or coil in a tail, snake's body etc.
  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of buy.

Etymologies

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From Middle English bought, bowght, bouȝt, *buȝt, probably an alteration of Middle English bight, biȝt, byȝt ("bend, bight") after Middle English bowen, buwen, buȝen ("to bow, bend"). Cognate with Scots boucht, bucht, bout ("bend"). More at bight.

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  • "A bend, flexure, turn, loop, coil, or knot, as in a rope or chain, or in a serpent; a fold in cloth."

    --from the Century Dictionary

    April 7, 2011