Definition of "boughs" []

• Plural form of bough. (noun)

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• "Seven of the cases involved the theft or receiving of items of little or no monetary value — mostly clothing and blankets, as well as boughs from a flake and a dead sister's trunk full of personal effects (all four female complainants filed charges in this category)."
• "It was absolutely still; the rain running from the eaves, and the rather wild but very low whistle of the wind round the chimneys and through the boughs were the sole sounds in its neighbourhood."
• "The boughs were a sheet of ice, and her fingers so cold that they could hardly take hold of them."