Bowd

There was a crunch an 'a splash, an' there was the chairman's bowd legs stickin 'up oot o' the boiler, an 'his face lookin' throo atween his taes, wi 'a pair o' een like a wild cat. ❋ J. B. Salmond (N/A)

He's a snod bit stockie -- a little beld, an 'bowd-leggit, an' wants a thoom. ❋ J. B. Salmond (N/A)

"I lad, an corporals too, aw'll be bun; but bowd thi whisht, whatever tha does -- we'll come for thi as sooin as we want thi; does ta think tha could sup a drop o 'summat if tha had it?" ❋ John Hartley (1877)

Jud sprung upo 'th' stage leet as a buck an 'bowd as a dandycock, an' th 'mon what were playingk th' drum (only it wer'nt a gradely drum) gen him a pair o 'gloves. ❋ Unknown (1873)

By the way many good olde people, and diuers others of yonger yeers, of meere kindnes gaue me bowd sixepences and grotes, blessing me with their harty prayers and ❋ William Kemp (1833)

She bowd over the weeping infant, and her life exhald ❋ William Blake (1792)

The Cloud descended and the Lily bowd her modest head: ❋ William Blake (1792)

Called Peanut in "The Clean Life Club," he went to join other boys in smoking "ducks" (half-smoked, discarded cigarettes) behind the Y's "tena bowd." ❋ Rob Neufeld (2008)