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Bout
Definitions
- 1 A surname
- 1 A period of something, especially one painful or unpleasant, like an illness.
"a bout of drought"
- 2 an occasion for excessive eating or drinking wordnet
- 3 A boxing match.
"An Italian boxer abandoned her bout at the Paris Olympics after only 46 seconds on Thursday, refusing to continue after taking a heavy punch from an Algerian opponent who had been disqualified from last year’s world championships over questions about her eligibility to compete in women’s sports."
- 4 a contest or fight (especially between boxers or wrestlers) wordnet
- 5 An assault (a fencing encounter) at which the score is kept.
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- 6 a period of illness wordnet
- 7 A roller derby match.
- 8 (sports) a division of a game during which one team is on the offensive wordnet
- 9 A fighting competition.
"Then they had bouts of wrestling and of cudgel play, so that every day they gained in skill and strength."
- 10 A bulge or widening in a musical instrument, such as either of the two characteristic bulges of a guitar.
- 11 The going and returning of a plough, or other implement used to mark the ground and create a headland, across a field. dated
"The outside bout of each land is ploughed two inches deeper, and from thence the water runs into cross furrows, which are dug with a spade […] I have an instrument of great power, called a scarifier, for this purpose. It is drawn by four horses, and completely prepares the land for the seed at each bout."
- 1 Apheretic form of about. colloquial
"They're talking bout you!"
- 1 To contest a bout.
Etymology
From Middle English bout, bowt, bught (whence also modern English bought (“bend, curve”)), probably from Old English *buht (“bend, turn”), an unrecorded variant of Old English byht (“a bend, curve”), from Proto-West Germanic *buhti, from Proto-Germanic *buhtiz (“a bend”). Equivalent to bow + -t. Doublet of bight and bought. For the sense development compare bender.
From Middle English bout, bowt, bught (whence also modern English bought (“bend, curve”)), probably from Old English *buht (“bend, turn”), an unrecorded variant of Old English byht (“a bend, curve”), from Proto-West Germanic *buhti, from Proto-Germanic *buhtiz (“a bend”). Equivalent to bow + -t. Doublet of bight and bought. For the sense development compare bender.
Written form of a reduction of about.
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