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bough
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Definition:1. An arm or branch of a tree, esp. a large arm or main branch.2. A gallows. [Archaic]Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Rock-a-bye baby on the tree tops,
when the wind blows the cradle will rock,
when the bough breaks the cradle will fall...
(I will stop here, I don't want to spoil the dramatic ending...)
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A thrush had alighted on a bough not five metres away, almost at the level of their faces.
George Orwell. 1984 (1949)
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He tied fishing line to an arrow and shot it over the bough and then used the fishing line to hoist the rope, and so on.
Marilynne Robinson. Gilead, p.111 (2004)
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she was a little startled by seeing the Cheshire Cat sitting on a bough of a tree a few yards off.
Lewis Carroll. Alice in Wonderland (1865)
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her projects of happiness that crackled in the wind like dead boughs,
Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary
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On an apple bough, the phoebe teeters and wags its tail and says, “Phoebe, phoe-bee!”
E. B. White. Charlotte's Web (1952)
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I scattered the crumbs, some on the stone sill, some on the cherry-tree bough,
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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gravelled driveways which wound about through wide-spreading lawns and under the interlacing boughs of tall poplars.
Jack London. The Call of the Wild (1903)
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