Busk

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • verb-intransitive. To play music or perform entertainment in a public place, usually while soliciting money.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A strip of metal, whalebone, wood, or other material, worn in the front of a corset to stiffen it.
  • n. A corset.
  • n. A kind of linen.
  • v. To prepare; to make ready; to array; to dress.
  • v. To solicit money by entertaining the public in the street or in public transport
  • v. To tack, to cruise about.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A thin, elastic strip of metal, whalebone, wood, or other material, worn in the front of a corset.
  • n. Among the Creek Indians, a feast of first fruits celebrated when the corn is ripe enough to be eaten. The feast usually continues four days. On the first day the new fire is lighted, by friction of wood, and distributed to the various households, an offering of green corn, including an ear brought from each of the four quarters or directions, is consumed, and medicine is brewed from snakeroot. On the second and third days the men physic with the medicine, the women bathe, the two sexes are taboo to one another, and all fast. On the fourth day there are feasting, dancing, and games.
  • v. To prepare; to make ready; to array; to dress.
  • v. To go; to direct one's course.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To get ready; prepare; equip; dress: as, to busk a fish-hook.
  • To use; employ.
  • To get ready and go; hasten; hurry.
  • n. An obsolete form of bush.
  • To seek; hunt up and down; cast about; beat about.
  • Nautical, to beat to windward along a coast; cruise off and on.
  • n. A stiffened body-garment, as a doublet, corset, or bodice.
  • n. A flexible strip of wood, steel, whalebone, or other stiffening material, placed in the front of stays to keep them in form.
  • n. An Indian feast of first fruits.
  • To cruise as a pirate.
  • To earn a livelihood by going about singing, playing, and selling ballads, or as an acrobat, juggler, etc., in public houses, steamboats, on the street, etc.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. play music in a public place and solicit money for it
  • Verb Form
    busked    busking    busks   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    play   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    go   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Rusk    brusque    cusk    dusk    husk    lusk    musk    rusk    tusk   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    biter    være    foglamp    binde    fekk    forstelse    norsk    Rik    mure    satte