Synonyms for bough
baʊbough

Princeton's WordNet

1. boughnoun

   any of the larger branches of a tree

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1. boughnoun

   Synonyms:
   branch, limb, shoot

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1. boughnoun

   Synonyms:
   branch, limb

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1. Dante Alighieri:

   The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

2. Omar Khayym:

   A Book of Verses undeneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness- Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow

3. William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 5 scene 1:

   Merrily, merrily shall I live now, Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.

4. D. H. Lawrence:

   I have never seen a wild thing feel sorry for itself. A little bird will fall dead, frozen from a bough, without ever having felt sorry for itself.