Obs. rare1. [a. F. bûchette, dim. of bûche billet.] A piece of firewood.

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1507.  Bk. Gd. Mann., L ij. [The] Fenix … assembleth all his buchettes and styckes in the hye mountayne, and fynably the fyre enflammeth them, and the Fenix is brente.

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