Meaning

noun a table (in a restaurant or bar) surrounded by two high-backed benches

noun small area set off by walls for special use

noun United States actor and assassin of President Lincoln (1838-1865)

originInherited from Middle English bothe, from Old East Norse *bóð, from Proto-Germanic *bōþō, *būþiz, *buþǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH-. Compare Middle Low German bôde, Middle Dutch boede, German Bude.

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