bousing

He was bousing up his jib, as a lad is bound to do, before he takes the breakers.

Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004

You've been too much sulking when you weren't off bousing, old fellow.

The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1989

You've been too much sulking when you weren't off bousing, old fellow.

The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1988

_ What! stowe you bene cofe and cut benar whydds; and byng we to some vyle to nyp a bong, so shall we haue lowre for the bousing ken and when we byng back to the deuseauye, we wyll fylche some duddes of the ruffemans, or myll the ken for a lagge of dudes.

Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle

"The _younkers_ are the young men called fore-mast men, to take in the top-sailes, or top and yard, for furling the sailes, or slinging the yards, bousing or trising, and take their turnes at helme."

Notes and Queries, Number 21, March 23, 1850 Various

That night Schwartz Carl had been bousing it over a pot of yellow wine in the pantry with his old crony, Master Rudolph, the steward; and the two, chatting and gossiping together, had passed the time away until long after the rest of the castle had been wrapped in sleep.

Otto of the Silver Hand Howard Pyle 1882

Before him, on the moonlit river, was a large boat, and near it, on the bank, he saw a company of men squatted about a fire and bousing together from a bottle.

Myths and Legends of Our Own Land — Volume 06 : Central States and Great Lakes 1879

He was bousing up his jib, as a lad is bound to do, before he takes the breakers.

Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale 1862

He had been bousing about the countryside somehow -- maybe harrying out of house and hald some puir bodies that hadna the wherewith to pay their rents; so, in riding hame fou -- it was pitmirk, and the rain pouring down in bucketfu's -- he became dumfoundered wi 'the darkness and the dramming thegither; and, losing his way, wandered about the fields, hauling his mare after him by the bridle.

The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith David Macbeth Moir 1824

He had been bousing about the countryside somehow -- maybe harrying out of house and hald some puir bodies that hadna the wherewith to pay their rents; so, in riding hame fou -- it was pitmirk, and the rain pouring down in bucketfu's -- he became dumfoundered wi 'the darkness and the dramming thegither; and, losing his way, wandered about the fields, hauling his mare after him by the bridle.

The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself David Macbeth Moir 1824