bough
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Is bough a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (obsolete, figuratively, poetic) A gallows.Examples: "It was vſed of auncient time in Gauelkind land, & hath receiued the allowance and iudgement of a good and lawfull cuſtome, that if the huſband be attainted and executed for a felonie by him committed, yet ſhall his wife for the ſolace of her loſſe and deſolation haue her dowrie of his land, and alſo the heire ſhall inherite the ſame according to that olde ſaying: The father to the bough, & the ſonne to the plough, […]"; ""No need," he said, "long words to make, / And little heed we thy lies now, / But if she doom thee to the bough.["]"figurativelyobsoletepoetic
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