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busk

busk (third-person singular simple present busks, present participle busking, simple past and past participle busked)

1. To prepare; to make ready; to array; to dress.

   Busk you, busk you, my bonny, bonny bride. — Hamilton.

2. To go; to direct ones course. [Obs.]

   Ye might have busked you to Huntly banks. — Skelton.

busk (plural busks)

1. A strip of metal, whalebone, wood, or other material, worn in the front of a corset to stiffen it.
2. (by extension) A corset.
   • 1661, John Donne, ""To his Mistress going to Bed"":

     Off with that happy busk, which I envie, / That still can be, and still can stand so nigh.

Definizione dizionario busk

osso

osso di balena

Altri significati:

(intransitive, New Zealand, UK) To solicit money by entertaining the public in the street or in public transport

(obsolete) A kind of linen.

(nautical) To tack, to cruise about.

(by extension) A corset.

A strip of metal, whalebone, wood, or other material, worn in the front of a corset to stiffen it.