boun

American

[boun, boon] / baʊn, bun /

verb (used with or without object)

Archaic.

to prepare; make ready.

Etymology

Origin of boun

Middle English; bound ⁴

Example Sentences

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Len Unger finds the boun a boon for he is an excellent ele phant rider.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then Gizur and Hjallti busked their ship for Iceland, and were soon "boun".

From The story of Burnt Njal From the Icelandic of the Njals Saga by Dasent, George Webbe

If you him lub, you boun be true to him.

From The Child Wife by Reid, Mayne

But be ye maid, or be ye nane, Unto the high seat make ye boun.

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) by Various

Then boun they to faring, the bark biding quiet; Hung upon hawser the wide-fathom'd ship Fast at her anchor.

From The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats by Anonymous

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