Definizione monolingua

bout

bout

1. third-person singular indicative present of bouillir

bout (plural bouts)

1. A period of something, usually painful or unpleasant

   a bout of drought.

2. (boxing) A boxing match.
3. (fencing) An assault (a fencing encounter) at which the score is kept.
4. A fighting competition.
   • 1883, Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Chapter V

     Then they had bouts of wrestling and of cudgel play, so that every day they gained in skill and strength.

5. (music) A bulge or widening in a musical instrument, such as either of the two characteristic bulges of a guitar.
6. (dated) The going and returning of a plough, or other implement used to mark the ground and create a headland, across a field.
   • 1809, A Letter to Sir John Sinclair [...] containing a Statement of the System under which a considerable Farm is profitably managed in Hertfordshire. Given at the request of the Board. By Thomas Greg, Esq., published in The Farmers Magazine, page 395:

     The outside bout of each land is ploughed two inches deeper, and from thence the water runs into cross furrows, which are dug with a spade [...] I have an instrument of great power, called a scarifier, for this purpose. It is drawn by four horses, and completely prepares the land for the seed at each bout.

   • 1922, An Ingenious One-Way Agrimotor, published in The Commercial Motor, volume 34, published by Temple Press, page 32:

     It is in this manner that the ploughs are reversed at the termination of each bout of the field.

   • 1976, Claude Culpin, Farm Machinery, page 60:

     The last two rounds must be ploughed shallower, and on the last bout the strip left should be one furrow width for a two-furrow plough, two for a three-furrow, and so on. [...]

bout

1. (colloquial) about

   theyre talking bout you!

Definizione dizionario bout

accesso

attacco

gara

incontro

partita

prova

Altri significati:

A fighting competition.

(fencing) An assault (a fencing encounter) at which the score is kept.

A period of something, usually painful or unpleasant

event (in a meet)

(boxing) A boxing match.

attack of an illness, etc.

(music) A bulge or widening in a musical instrument, such as either of the two characteristic bulges of a guitar.

victory or defeat

(dated) The going and returning of a plough, or other implement used to mark the ground and create a headland, across a field.

(colloquial) about