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▪ I. bowie1 Sc.|ˈbaʊɪ, ˈbɔːwɪ|
[Of uncertain origin: it has been referred to F. buie water-vessel; it is possibly a dim. of bowe = boll or bowl.]
A low shallow tub or pail; a wooden milk-bowl.
1538Aberdeen Regist. V. 16 (Jam.) Ane stand, a bowy. a1774Fergusson Poems (1789) II. 56 (Jam.) I' the far nook the bowie briskly reams. 1816Scott Old Mort. Introd. 10 [He] makes them into spoons, trenchers, bickers, bowies, and so forth. 1853G. Johnston Nat. Hist. E. Border I. 136 Scrubbers for cleaning milk bowies.
Hence bowieful.
1805J. Nicol Poems I. 143 (Jam.) Thar bowiefu's o' kail fu' strang. 1818Hogg Brownie Bodsb. II. 45 (Jam.) Davie..brought me a hale bowiefu' o' milk.
▪ II. ˈbowie2
Short for bowie-knife.
1850Kingsley Alt. Locke xxvii (D.), I took the precaution of bringing my bowie and revolver with me.
Hence ˈbowieism, the use of the bowie-knife.
1844For. Q. Rev. XXXIV. 118 Arkansas is the head⁓quarters of Bowieism.
▪ III. bowie
obs. form of buoy. |