Bout
[baʊt]
Definition
(noun.) a contest or fight (especially between boxers or wrestlers).
(noun.) a period of illness; 'a bout of fever'; 'a bout of depression'.
Typed by Eugenia--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) As much of an action as is performed at one time; a going and returning, as of workmen in reaping, mowing, etc.; a turn; a round.
(n.) A conflict; contest; attempt; trial; a set-to at anything; as, a fencing bout; a drinking bout.
Edited by Clifford
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Turn.[2]. [Rare.] Conflict, contest, set to.
Checked by Karol
Definition
n. a turn trial or round: an attempt: a contest or trial—a fencing bout or a continued fit of drinking.
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Examples
- At the Cape Verde Islands he made some interesting observations of a white calcareous stratum which ran for miles along the coast at a height of a) bout forty-five feet above the water. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- I berry much spect Missis be anxious 'bout Jerry. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Don't know nothin' 'bout that, said the woman; nobody han't never loved me, since my old man died. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- After a bout of hard drinking in Babylon a sudden fever came upon Alexander (323 B.C.), and he sickened and died. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Don't know 'bout that, said Haley; he's a pretty smart young 'un, straight, fat, strong; flesh as hard as a brick! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Donno nothing 'bout love; I loves candy and sich, that's all, said Topsy. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Dun no, massa, but t'ink 'bout t'ree mile, was his reply. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Sometimes slowly, sometimes quickly, sometimes several steps at one bout, sometimes stopping, never turning back. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- I reckon I may bring it wi' me; or would yo' rayther have me 'bout my brains? Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Mother's bar'ls is like dat ar widder's, Mas'r George was reading 'bout, in de good book,--dey never fails, said Mose, aside to Peter. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I kin get ashore all safe, but I dunno 'bout you, sirs. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Didn't say nothin' 'bout my old man, s'pose? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- It was found, for example, that one horse-power rightly applied is sufficient to maintain a plane of two hundred pounds in horizontal flight at a rate of a bout forty-five miles an hour. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Why, sir, Friday or Saturday, nigh 'bout. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- I suppose Lady Middleton won't ask us any more this bout. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
Editor: Stephen