Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Wearing a busk; stiffened with a busk.
Wiktionary
- v. Simple past tense and past participle of busk.
- adj. Wearing a busk.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Wearing a busk.
Examples
“One or two of the gang climbed the banks to discover if any bailiffs were on the watch; while the others sat down, and with the help of the turnip lantern "busked" their spears; in other words, fastened on the steel -- or, it might be, merely pieces of rusty iron sharpened into a point at home -- to the staves.”
“Meanwhile, the family busked for a living in the subways.”
The Wall Street Journal: Unmoored on Land, an Adventurer at Sea
“I busked here before I was old enough to play in bars.”
“Ms. Carlile busked here before she was old enough to play in bars.”
“Once i busked in the streets hoping to make money to maybe come to Disney World ... now I performed here.”
“In one scene he was busking and putting so much into his singing (aka shouting) that I just thought - wow, he wouldn't last 10 minutes let alone half a day, singing like that on the street, and yes, I know he has busked for real.”
“The young Chinese friend of hers who busked with his violin on The Drive, a boyish young man with long hair and a beautiful face, and a black hat that was nearly cowboy, had played her a song one day that he had just composed.”
“Pearl and the Beard were familiar with subway performances; they had busked as a group earlier in their career.”
The Wall Street Journal: An Underground Scene, With Great Acoustics
“She has busked on the streets of Chicago to write about what itÂ’s like to sing for your supper.”
“You got a lot of press when you busked for WarChild outside the Deutsche Bank in London.”
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