[Origin unknown; if not identical with prec.] intr. Of fowls: To move or shift about restlessly or uneasily.
1567. Turberv., Passions, in Chalmers, Epitaphs, &c. Birds will alway buske and bate and scape the fowlers trap. Ibid. (1575), Bk. Falconrie, 4. This sorte of hawkes do never use to plume or tyre uppon the foul whom they have seazed untill such time as they percieve it to leave busking and bating.
1835. Marryat, Olla Podr., v. A hole … as large as if a covey of partridges had been busking in it.
