Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A box; especially, a box for holding ointment.
- noun A rude hut, such as those erected along the line of a railway for the temporary use of laborers: called in the United States a shanty.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A box.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A
box .
Etymologies
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Old French boiste, French boîte, from the same root as English box.
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Examples
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In the last battle between Arthur and Mordred 'boist'rous bangs with thumping thwacks fall thick', while the younger leader rages over the field 'all fury-like, frounc'd up with frantic frets'.
The Growth of English Drama Arnold Wynne
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The next day, after another test, she calls back: I thought my stomach would boist from all that water.
Tessie and Pearlie JOY HOROWITZ 1996
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"Well, dis guy, he gits to de door, an 'opens it, an' I'm just gittin 'ready fer one sudden boist of speed, when dere jumps out from de room on de odder side de passage -- you know de room -- anodder guy, an' gits de rapid strangleholt on de foist mug.
Gammerstang commented on the word boist
(noun) - A little extempore bed by a fireside for a sick person. --Samuel Pegge's Alphabet of Kenticisms, 1736
February 7, 2018