bouman

[21.1] A bouman is a tenant who takes stock from the landlord and shares with him the increase.

Kidnapped: The Adventures of David Balfour 1886

* A bouman is a tenant who takes stock from the landlord and shares with him the increase.

Kidnapped Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

Posted September 28, 2004 7: 26 AM mathijs bouman writes: higher fixed production costs translate into higher prices. (e.g. the sometimes surreal policy debate just after the European autioning of UMTS-licences)

Economic Illiteracy, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

But the bouman, after feeling about in a hairy purse that hung in front of him in the Highland manner (though he wore otherwise the Lowland habit, with sea-trousers), began to roll his eyes strangely, and at last said, "Her nainsel will loss it," meaning he thought he had lost it.

Kidnapped: The Adventures of David Balfour 1886

Perhaps the bouman was honest enough; perhaps he had meant to cheat and then, finding himself alone with two of us in a desert place, cast back to honesty as being safer; at least, and all at once, he seemed to find that button and handed it to Alan.

Kidnapped: The Adventures of David Balfour 1886

This he intrusted to the bouman, who promised to make what manner of speed he best could, and carried it off with him down the hill.

Kidnapped: The Adventures of David Balfour 1886

He was three full days gone, but about five in the evening of the third, we heard a whistling in the wood, which Alan answered; and presently the bouman came up the water-side, looking for us, right and left.

Kidnapped: The Adventures of David Balfour 1886

This was all as bad as could be; and the little note the bouman had carried us from Mrs. Stewart was of a miserable sadness.

Kidnapped: The Adventures of David Balfour 1886

I thought of it all the more, too, when the bouman brought out a green purse with four guineas in gold, and the best part of another in small change.

Kidnapped: The Adventures of David Balfour 1886

Lastly, the bouman took himself off by one way; and Alan I (getting our chattels together) struck into another to resume our flight.

Kidnapped: The Adventures of David Balfour 1886