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(now historical) The right to rations at court, granted to the king's household, attendants etc. quotations
They […] made room for a bombardman that brought bouge for a country lady.
1612, Ben Jonson, Love Restored
Officials carrying lists of servants receiving ‘bouge of court’ – wages and board – carried out identity checks […]
2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin, published 2012, page 29
third-person singular simple present bouges, present participle bouging, simple past and past participle bouged
To swell out. examples
To bilge. quotations examples
Their shippe bouged.
1589, Richard Hakluyt, The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation, […], London: […] George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, deputies to Christopher Barker, […]