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

BOTWAND, s. Perhaps, a rod of authority.
Kennedy.

Germ. bot, power, and wand, a rod.

BOUCHT, BOUGHT, s. A curvature or bending of any kind, S. "The bought of the arm," the bending of the arm at the elbow.
Journ. Lond.
Where the sea forms a sort of bay, it is said to have a bought, S.

A. S. bogeht, arcuatus, crooked; bug-an, to bend. Germ. bug, sinus; bucht, curvatura littoris, Wachter.

To BOUCHT, BOUGHT, v. a. To fold down, S.

Isl. bukt-a, Teut. buck-en, flectere, curvare.

BOUCHT, BOUGHT, BUCHT, BUGHT, s.
1. A small pen, usually put up in the corner of the fold, into which it was customary to drive the ewes, when they were to be milked; also called ewe-bucht, S.
Douglas.
2. A house in which sheep are inclosed, Lanerks.; an improper sense.
Statist. Acc.

Teut. bocht, bucht, septum, septa, interseptum, sepimentum clausum.

To BOUCHT, BOUGHT v. a. To inclose in a fold, S.; formed from the s.
Ross.

BOUCHT-KNOT, s. A running knot; one that can easily be loosed, in consequence of the cord being doubled, S.