An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language / in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals

by John Jamieson

To BAUCHLE, BAWCHYLL, BACHLE, (gutt.) BASHLE, v. a.
1. To wrench, to distort, to put out of shape; as "to bauchle shoon," to wear shoes in so slovenly a way as to let them fall down in the heels, S.
Journ. London.
2. To treat contemptuously, to vilify.
Wallace.
Bashel may be allied to Fr. bossel-er, to bruise.

Isl. backell, luxatus, valgus, shambling, biag-a violare, whence biag-adr luxatus, membrorum valetudine violatus.

BAUCHLE, BACHEL, s.
1. An old shoe, used as a slipper, S.
2. Whatsoever is treated with contempt or disrespect. To mak a bauchle of any thing, to use it so frequently and familiarly, as to shew that one has no respect for it, S.
Ferguson's Prov.

BAUGIE, s. An ornament; as, a ring, a bracelet.
Douglas.

Teut. bagge gemma; Isl. baug-r; Alem. boug, A. S. beag, Fr. bague, Ital. bagun, annulus.

BAUK, BAWK, s.
1. One of the cross-beams in the roof of a house, which support and unite the rafters, S.
2. The beam by which scales are suspended in a balance, S.

Teut. balck waeghe, a balance. We invert the term, making it weigh-bauks.

Germ. balk, Belg. balck, Dan. bielke, a beam.

BAUK, BAWK, s. A strip of land left unploughed, two or three feet in breadth, S.
Statist. Acc.

A. S. and C. B. balc, Su. G. balk, porca, a ridge of land between two furrows; Isl. baulkur, lira in agro, vel alia soli eminentia minor.