bought

Meanings

Verb

• Past of buy.

Noun

• A bend; flexure; curve; a hollow angle.
• A bend or hollow in a human or animal body.
• A curve or bend in a river, mountain chain, or other geographical feature.
• The part of a sling that contains the stone.
• A fold, bend, or coil in a tail, snake's body etc.

Origin

• See buy.
• From Middle English bought, bowght, bouȝt, *buȝt, probably an alteration of bight, biȝt, byȝt after bowen, buwen, buȝen. Cognate with Scots boucht, bucht, bout. More at bight.