bought
Pronunciation Verb
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Pronunciation Verb
- Simple past tense and past participle of buy.
- She bought an expensive bag last week.
- People have bought gas masks.
- Our products can be bought at your local store.
bought (plural boughts)
- (obsolete) A bend; flexure; curve; a hollow angle.
- (obsolete) A bend or hollow in a human or animal body.
- (obsolete) A curve or bend in a river, mountain chain, or other geographical feature.
- 1612, John Smith, Map of Virginia, in Kupperman 1988, p. 159:
- the river it selfe turneth North east and is stil a navigable streame. On the westerne side of this bought is Tauxenent with 40 men.
- 1612, John Smith, Map of Virginia, in Kupperman 1988, p. 159:
- (obsolete) The part of a sling that contains the stone.
- (obsolete) A fold, bend, or coil in a tail, snake's body etc.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.i:
- Her huge long taile her den all ouerspred, / Yet was in knots and many boughtes vpwound, / Pointed with mortall sting.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.i:
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