ppl. a. [f. BOUGH sb. and v.1 + -ED.] a. Having boughs (chiefly with descriptive adj., as dark-boughed, low-boughed); also, covered or shaded with boughs. b. Stripped of (its) boughs.

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c. 1400.  Lay le Freine, 169. An asche … fair and heighe, Wele y-bowed.

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1725.  Sloane, Jamaica, II. 304. They build their nests in low bough’d trees.

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1805–6.  Coleridge, 3 Graves, III. iii. A mossy track all over boughed.

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1852.  Tupper, Proverb. Philos., 391. The tree is felled, and boughed, and bare.

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1877.  M. Arnold, Grande Chartreuse. Many a dark-bough’d pine.

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