To form or drill a new mouth or vent in, as in a gun which has been spiked.

noun. In the ancient French monarchy, the service of the king's table, under the direction of the master of the king's household.

noun. A certain allowance of provisions made by a king to those who obeyed his summons to the field, according to the feudal system of military service.

noun. Any supply of provisions; food. Formerly corruptly bouge.

noun. In medieval armor, a notch or indentation in the upper right-hand edge of the shield, allowing a weapon to be passed through it.

noun. In ordnance, a short cylinder of copper placed in a counterbore in the face of the breech-block, and through which the vent of a piece of breech-loading ordnance is drilled; a bushing.

noun. The mouth of a firearm of any kind; the bore.

noun. Same as bush, a lining.

transitive verb. Same as bush, to line.

noun. A mouth.

noun. An allowance of meat and drink for the tables of inferior officers or servants in a nobleman's palace or at court.