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- verb archaic Second-person singular simple present form of
bellow .
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Examples
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Sir Bull! when they tie thee to thy stinking manger, thou pawest the ground with thy forehand and rashest out with thy hind hoofs and pushest with thy horns and bellowest aloud, so they deem thee contented.
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“Comment, bourreau! tu fais des cris!” — “How, hangman! thou bellowest!”
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When thou returnest, the ploughman ties thee to a stinking manger, and thou friskest and pawest the ground and buttest with thy horns and bellowest greatly, and they think thou art content.
The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I Anonymous 1879
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Now hearken to me, Sir Bull! when they tie thee to thy stinking manger, thou pawest the ground with thy forehand and rashest out with thy hind hoofs and pushest with thy horns and bellowest aloud, so they deem thee contented.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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