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.