bough
noun/baʊ/
/baʊ/
(formal or literary)- a large branch of a treeTopics Plants and treesc2Word OriginOld English bōg, bōh ‘bough or shoulder’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch boeg ‘shoulders or ship's bow’, German Bug ‘ship's bow’ and ‘horse's hock or shoulder’, also to bow1.
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