appendage, arm, bine, branch, branchedness, branchiness, burgeon, deadwood, flagellum, fork, frond, hand, imp, joint, leg, limb, link, lobe, lobule, member, offshoot, organ, pinion, ramage, ramification, runner, sarment, scion, shoot, slip, spear, spray, sprig, sprit, sprout, spur, stolon, sucker, switch, tail, tendril, thallus, twig, wing |
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Bough \Bough\, n. [OE. bogh, AS. b[=o]g, b[=o]h, bough,
shoulder; akin to Icel. b[=o]gr shoulder, bow of a ship, Sw.
bog, Dan. bov, OHG. buog, G. bug, and to Gr.? ( for ? )
forearm, Skr. b[=a]hu (for bh[=a]ghu) arm. [root]88, 251. Cf.
Bow of a ship.]
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1. An arm or branch of a tree, esp. a large arm or main
branch.
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2. A gallows. [Archaic] --Spenser.
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