Ääntäminen
Southern England:
- GA:
- RP:
- Northern England:
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Määritelmät
Verbi
- (intransitive, especially UK) To solicit money by entertaining the public in the street or in public transport.
- (transitive, Northern England, Scotland) To prepare; to make ready; to array; to dress.
- (transitive, obsolete) To sell articles such as obscene books in public houses etc.
- (Northern England, Scotland) To go; to direct one's course.
- (nautical) To tack, cruise about.
Substantiivi
- A strip of metal, whalebone, wood, or other material, worn in the front of a corset to stiffen it.
- (obsolete) A kind of linen.
- (by extension) A corset.
Esimerkit
- Her long slit sleeves, stiff busk, puff verdingall, / Is all that makes her thus angelical.
- Off with that happy busk, which I envie, / That still can be, and still can stand so nigh.
- Busk, a kind of table linen, occurs first in 1458, and occasionally afterwards.
- Busk you, busk you, my bonny, bonny bride. — Hamilton.
- The watch stert up and drew their weapons bright
- And busk'd them bold to battle and to fight. — Fairfax.
- Ye might have busked you to Huntly banks. — Skelton.
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