Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • intransitive verb To pull or hoist with a tackle.
  • intransitive verb To hoist.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as booze, which is now the usual form.
  • noun Same as booze.
  • noun Same as boose.
  • Nautical, to haul with tackle.
  • noun In mining, ore mixed with veinstone; second-class ore, which must undergo further preparation before going to the smelter.

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

  • intransitive verb To drink immoderately; to carouse; to booze. See booze.
  • noun Drink, esp. alcoholic drink; also, a carouse; a booze.

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

  • verb nautical To haul or hoist (something) with a tackle.
  • noun obsolete drink, especially alcoholic drink
  • noun obsolete a carouse; a booze

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb haul with a tackle

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Origin unknown.]

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Examples

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  • J'dessine comme une bouse moi et j'ai carrement pas d'idee du tout ...

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  • The paper is an extension on work initially done in meningitis, where decreasing the overcrowding in houses (15-20 people in a 3 bedroom bouse) led to improvement in incidence.

    Medpundit 2007

  • I also bought a basic brown pants suit with a blue bouse, and I already owned a basic black pants suit, and I bought a bright pink top to go underneath it.

    One Bright Star (1B*) Reignited 2007

  • Tokyo Nicholas found Tanzan Nangi in a back room of Kisoko's town bouse.

    Second Skin Lustbader, Eric 1995

  • The room was changed so completely that it was suddenly unfamiliar to her, as if she had walked into the bouse of a stranger.

    The Hand of Chaos Hickman, Tracy 1993

  • I thought it was strange, because no one's living in the main bouse, and curb parking isn't allowed on Goodwinter Boulevard, you know.

    The Cat Who Moved A Mountain Braun, Lilian Jackson 1992

  • The bouse of the god - the full horror of the phrase filled his mind.

    The Conan Chronicles Howard, Robert E. 1989

  • Of the hands, only Ed Lee, Bill Davis, and Carlos Padilla had made it to the bouse. with the family, and not before a bullet smashed Ed's left arm.

    The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1989

  • On the other side lay Jesse Lyndon's land, but his bouse was to the north, hidden from this by its own patch of woods.

    The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1989

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