boun
verbEtymology Inherited from Middle English boun, from Old Norse búinn, past participle of búa (“to prepare”).
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Ambitransitive To make or get ready; prepare.
- From Cheviot to the shores of Ross, From Solway-Sands to Marshal's - Moss, All bouned them for the fight1815, Walter Scott, “(please specify the page)”, in The Lord of the Isles, a Poem, Edinburgh: […] [F]or Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; by James Ballantyne and Co., […], →OCLC:
- Derived terms
- bound