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How to pronounce bough in English?

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Type of limb, tree branch

Examples of bough

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He wears no armour, but bears an axe in one hand and a holly bough in the other.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Check for balance of color, and occasionally pick up the bough and look for holes.
From the sfgate.com
First a leopard, lying full length along a bough with all four legs and tail dangling.
From the telegraph.co.uk
He said people bough the printed books after sampling the electronic pirated versions.
From the eu.techcrunch.com
In addition to seeing the hawk, we watched a northern flicker jump from bough to bough.
From the sfgate.com
I walked with him, pulling his hand from his pocket toward a pine bough.
From the post-gazette.com
You bough shares to share in the returns of the company via dividends.
From the economist.com
These were bough at the Kollar Club and I don't know what their called.
From the eatocracy.cnn.com
So Twitter, which unsurprisingly is complaining the loudest, will be the bough that bends.
From the techcrunch.com
More examples
  • Any of the larger branches of a tree
  • (boughed) having boughs (of trees)
  • A branch (or) or tree branch (sometimes referred to in botany as a ramus) is a woody structural member connected to but not part of the central trunk of a tree (or sometimes a shrub). Large branches are known as boughs and small branches are known as twigs.
  • (BOUGHS) He is up in the boughs; he is in a passion.