Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A West Indian hut; a thatched hut of the kind used by the negroes of the West Indies.

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Examples

  • He grew up in a bohio of dirt floors, and the structure was the kind used by the Tainos, our old Arawak ancestors.

    Carmen Agra Deedy spins stories Carmen Agra Deedy 2005

  • He grew up in a bohio of dirt floors, and the structure was the kind used by the Tainos, our old Arawak ancestors.

    Carmen Agra Deedy spins stories Carmen Agra Deedy 2005

  • He grew up in a bohio of dirt floors, and the structure was the kind used by the Tainos, our old Arawak ancestors.

    Carmen Agra Deedy spins stories Carmen Agra Deedy 2005

  • It is possible that youths from a community such as this might want to return, but not to the isolated bohio.

    DEDICATION OF NEW RURAL COMMUNITY 1977

  • If you offer him that isolated bohio on top of that hill, that youngster will not be willing to come back to the countryside.

    DEDICATION OF NEW RURAL COMMUNITY 1977

  • Many youths who leave to attend school and even many youths in the military services do not want to come back to the isolated bohio.

    DEDICATION OF NEW RURAL COMMUNITY 1977

  • The usual buildings upon such places are a dwelling house, a drying-house, a few sheds for cattle, and perhaps a small _bohio_ (hut), or two, made in the rudest manner, for the shelter of the hands, who, upon some of the very largest places number twenty or thirty, though not always negroes -- for this portion of the labor of the island seems to be performed by the lower classes of whites.

    Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce E. R. Billings

  • He was straining his gaze upon the door of the bohio in the immediate expectation of seeing Esteban emerge.

    Rainbow's End Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

  • From the blazing bohio ran two armed men, brushing sparks from their clothing.

    Rainbow's End Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

  • A bohio, hidden away far up the Yumuri, and so insignificant as to escape attention.

    Rainbow's End Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

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