bouked

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Jamieson thus explains it: Bouk is the Scotch word for a lye used to steep foul linen in, before it is washed in water; the buckbasket, therefore, is the basket employed to carry clothes, after they have been bouked, to the washing-place. Sweet are the songs of Egypt on paper.

Various - The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction : Volume 12, No. 325, August 2, 1828