bough
/ˈbaʊ̯/ noun C2- A tree-branch, usually a primary one directly attached to the trunk. · When the bough breaks, the cradle will fall. (Rock-a-bye Baby)
Plural boughs
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Tiny woods below whose boughs
“If it had grown up,” she said to herself, “it would have made a dreadfully ugly child: but it makes rather a handsome pig, I think.” And she began thinking over other children she knew, who might do very well as pigs, and was just saying to herself, “if one only knew the right way to change them—” when she was a little startled by seeing the Cheshire Cat sitting on a bough of a tree a few yards off.
The next thing he remembered was feeling hands on his legs and arms--hard, strong, little hands--and then a swash of branches in his face, and then he was staring down through the swaying boughs as Baloo woke the jungle with his deep cries and Bagheera bounded up the trunk with every tooth bared.
Rotten twigs and dry boughs are they all.”
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