Citations:bough


 * 1) A firm (and often larger) branch of a tree.


 * 1750 April, Mr Urban, Surry, April 4, letter sent to The Gentleman's Magazine, Vol. XX, page 182:
 * As I was riding on the 29th of last month I gathered a Hawthorn bough, full-blown.


 * 1800 General Wolf, "Maid milking her cow", Page 2:
 * It was on a fine summer's morning, as birds sweetly sung on each bough,


 * 1829, The Extractor; or Universal repertorium of literature, page 424:
 * See him dropping from some tall thin bough,
 * 1889, George Manville Fenn, Quicksilver: Or, the Boy with No Skid to His Wheel, page 115:
 * It was done though at last, the thin bough in which the line was tangled seized by the left hand, while the right cut vigorously with the knife. It would have been far easier to have disentangled the line, but