Sc. [f. BOUGHT sb.2]
1. trans. To pen or fold (sheep). Hence Boughting vbl. sb.
1724. Ramsay, Tea-t. Misc. (1733), I. 72. At boughting-time to leave the plain In milking to abide thee.
1792. Burns, My ain kind Dearie. The eastern star Tells bughtin-time is near, my jo.
2. gen. To inclose, fence in; hence Boughted ppl. a. Bouchting-blanket, ‘a small blanket, spread across a feather-bed, the ends being pushed in under the bed at both sides’ (Jamieson).
1807–10. Tannahill, Bonnie Wood Craigie Lee. The mavis, down thy bughted glade, Gars echo ring frae every tree.
