Bout: Definition and part of speech

Bout

  1. n. A conflict; contest; attempt; trial; a set-to at anything; as, a fencing bout; a drinking bout.
  2. n. As much of an action as is performed at one time; a going and returning, as of workmen in reaping, mowing, etc.; a turn; a round.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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