Definition of Bowgets

1. bowget [n] - See also: bowget

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bowgets

bowered
boweries
bowering
bowers
bowery
bowes
bowess
bowet
boweth
bowets
bowfin
bowfins
bowfront
bowge
bowget
bowgets (current term)
bowgrace
bowgraces
bowhead
bowhead whale
bowhead whales
bowheads
bowhunter
bowhunters
bowhunting
bowieite
bowing
bowing out
bowingly

Literary usage of Bowgets

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The curiosities of heraldry by Mark Antony Lower (1845)
"All these bearings are emblematical of the crusades; and the water-bowgets are a play upon the name. "In the hall of the manor-house of Newton, ..."

2. English Surnames: An Essay on Family Nomenclature, Historical, Etymological by Mark Antony Lower (1849)
"... are three water-bowgets, 'tres boutz/ and Mr. Montagu thinks the name was taken from the bearings.* The six swallows (in French hirondelles) in the arms ..."

3. English Surnames: An Essay on Family Nomenclature, Historical, Etymological by Mark Antony Lower (1849)
"... three water-bowgets, ' tres boutz/- and Mr. Montagu thinks the name was taken from the bearings.* • The six swallows (in French hirondelles) in the arms ..."

4. Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society by Middlesex Local History Council (1875)
"Gwillim in his quaint fashion thus gives the coat—" He beareth, Argent, a fesse barry or and argent, between three water bowgets sable, by the name of ..."

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