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[edit]Noun
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- (archaic) Alternative form of bunches: plural of bunch
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene[1], Book 2 Canto XII:
- So fashioned a porch with rare device,
Archt over head with an embracing vine,
Whose bounches hanging downe seemd to entice
All passers-by to taste their lushious wine,
- 1895, Thomas Abingdon, A Survey of Worcestershire[2], Worcestershire Historical Society, page 74:
- His Armes ordered as before on his father's monument [...] 4. Gules, a cheueron between 3 bounches of grapes or pineaples Or.
Verb
[edit]bounches
- Alternative form of bounces: third-person singular simple present indicative of bounce
- 1785, Thomas Ruddiman, “Rodondo, or the State Jugglers”, in A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and Valuable Pieces, Edinburgh: T. Ruddiman and Company, page 48:
- 'You have observ'd within a roof,
'An eager spider ply his woof;
'And lurk perdue within the loom,
'Nor think of all destroying Broom;
'Whet for the caitiff fly his pounches?—
'But if 'gainst web a hornet bounches,
'Headlong to earth the spider falls,
'While hornet marks not as he crawls!—
- 1973, Alice Childress, Wedding Band: A Love-Hate Story in Black and White, Samuel French, →ISBN, page 15:
- THE BELL MAN. (Sits on the bed and bounches up and down.) Awwww, Great Gawd-a-mighty!