Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
buat . - noun See
bowess .
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Examples
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The minister had sat himself down by the bedside, and was reading aloud by the light of the 'bowet' from out of Genesis of
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With a Bible under his oxter, and a 'bowet' new lit in his right hand, he accompanied me swiftly up the street.
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In we went -- I holding the little 'bowet' on high to give us light.
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I glanced narrowly at the swift-passing stranger, and beneath the smouldering 'bowet' I had borrowed from the 'Meenister'
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Aye tell hymn iz okai abowt teh beeg bowet inda Meditturainiian, butz cud hymn bii puttin mai naem onda transum wif gold letturin?
i takes it off - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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'Brownie's' den he reached me the 'bowet' to hold while he peered through the aperture.
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The Minister's 'bowet' had now gone out; the window was closed.
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First rushed in the dog, and then Isaac, with his glazed hat, slouched over his brow, and his horn bowet glimmering by his knee.
The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith David Macbeth Moir 1824
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First rushed in the dog, and then Isaac, with his glazed hat, slouched over his brow, and his horn bowet glimmering by his knee.
The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself David Macbeth Moir 1824
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