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Definition of Boets
1. boet [n] - See also: boet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Boets
Literary usage of Boets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Select Collection of Old Plays: In Twelve Volumes ; with Additional Notes by Isaac Reed, Robert Dodsley, Octavius Gilchrist, John Payne Collier (1825)
"There is a new trade lately come up to be a vocation, I wis not what: they
call 'em—boets : a new name for beggars, I think, since the statute against ..."
2. A Select Collection of Old Plays by Robert Dodsley (1780)
"If he can cry, Hy, Ho, Gee, Hut, Gee, Ho, it is better, I trow, than being a boet.
boets ! I had rather zee him remitted to the jail, and have his twelve ..."
3. The Sugar-beet in America by Franklin Stewart Harris (1919)
"... for beets testing not less than 12 per cent sugar and under 14 per cent $8.50
per ton for boets testing not less than 14 per cent sugar and under 14.5 ..."
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