Busk Definition

bŭsk
busking, busks
verb
To perform for money as a singer or strolling entertainer in public places.
Webster's New World

To prepare; to make ready; to array; to dress.

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To go; to direct one's course. [Obs.]

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(nautical) To tack, to cruise about.

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noun

A strip of metal, whalebone, wood, or other material, worn in the front of a corset to stiffen it.

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(by extension) A corset.

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(obsolete) A kind of linen.

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Other Word Forms of Busk

Noun

Singular:
busk
Plural:
busks

Origin of Busk

  • Earlier to be an itinerant performer probably from busk to go about seeking, cruise as a pirate perhaps from obsolete French busquer to prowl from Italian buscare to prowl, or Spanish buscar to seek from Old Spanish boscar

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From French busc, by dissimilation from buste from Italian busto.

    From Wiktionary

  • Apparently from French busquer or Spanish buscar.

    From Wiktionary

  • From Middle English busken, from Old Norse búask

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  • Etymology unknown

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Busk Sentence Examples

  • In the so-called Selenariidae, probably an unnatural association of genera which have assumed a free discoidal form of zoarium, they may reach a very high degree of development, but Busk's suggestion that in this group they "may be subservient to locomotion" needs verification.

  • References to important works on the species of marine Polyzoa by Busk, Hincks, Jullien, Levinsen, MacGillivray, Nordgaard, Norman, Waters and others are given in the Memoir (22) by Nickles and Bassler.

  • Among the higher passes are Hoosier Pass (10,309 ft.) in the Park Range, and Hayden Divide (10,780) and Veta Pass (9390), both of these across the Sangre de Cristo range; the crossing of the San Miguel chain at Lizard Head Pass (10,250) near Rico; of the Uncompahgre at Dallas Divide (8977) near Ouray; of the Elk and Sawatch ranges at Fremont (11,320), Tennessee (10,229), and Breckenridge (11,470) passes, and the Busk Tunnel, all near Leadville; and Marshall Pass (10,846) above Salida.

  • Since his time the anthropological researches of Broca, Thurnam and Davis, Huxley, Busk, Beddoe, Virchow, Tubino and others have proved the existence in Europe, from Neolithic times, of a race, small of stature, with long or oval skulls, and accustomed to bury their dead in tombs.

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