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▪ I. bose, n.1|bəʊs|
Colloq. abbrev. of bosun.
1912J. Masefield in English Rev. XII. 376 The bose half blind, Spat. 1927J. Sampson Seven Seas Shanty Book 47 A handy Bose and a handy Sails.
▪ II. bose, v.|bəʊs|
[cf. E.D.D. Boss v.3 to bang, Boss adj. hollow, empty (= boss a.).]
To test (ground) for the presence of buried structures by noting the sound of percussion from a weighted rammer. So ˈboser, an instrument used for this purpose; ˈbosing vbl. n., the action or process of testing ground in this way.
1929Antiquity III. 231 The plan made by Dr. Curwen, based upon ‘bosing’ and excavation, is full of interest. 1930Ibid. IV. 30 The ‘boser’ can easily be made out of a narrow cylindrical tin filled with about 8 lbs. of lead. 1953R. J. C. Atkinson Field Archæol. (ed. 2) i. 31 The first of these [methods], known as ‘bosing’, consists in percussing the surface of the ground with a weighted rammer and listening to the sound thus produced. Over undisturbed ground the sound is dull;..over a filled-up ditch or pit it changes to a more resonant note... A heavy pick-axe may be used as a boser.
▪ III. bose
obs. form of boose, boss, bush. |