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ˈwater-bough Obs. exc. dial.
(See quots. 1618, 1699 and cf. water-shoots.)
1387Trevisa Higden V. 263 As water bowes beeþ i-kutte and i-hewe of treen. 1398― Barth. De P.R. xvii. ii. (1495) 604 Yf water bowes and superfluyte ben pared of: the tree bereth the beter and the more fruyte. 1523–34Fitzherb. Husb. §129 Cut away all the water-bowes, and the small bowes, that the pryncipall bowes may haue the more sap. 1591Greene Farew. Follie Wks. (Grosart) IX. 259 As the fairest Cedar hath his water boughes,..and the sweetest rose his prickle: so in a crowne is hidden far more care than content. 1618W. Lawson New Orchard & Garden xi. (1623) 38 Water boughes, or vndergrowth, are such boughes as grow low vnder others and are by them ouergrowne, ouer⁓shadowed, dropped on, and pinde for want of plentie of sap. 1699L. Meager New Art Gard. 46 Take the Water-boughs away, which are those on the Standards that are shaded, and dropt upon, remaining smooth and naked without Buds. 1871Kingsley At Last xi, The stem rises, without a fork, for sixty feet or more, and rolls out at the top into a head very like that of an elm trimmed up, and like an elm too in its lateral water-boughs. |