What is "bosk"

Usage examples of "bosk".

Several animals, those called bosk, ten or more, hobbled, browsed among the trees on the other side of the camp.

In the winters, which are not harsh at this latitude, such huts are covered on the outside with painted canvas or, among the richer peasants, with ornamented, painted bosk hides, protected and glossed with oil.

I was examined with less respect, being a slave, than would have been accorded to a bosk heifer.

The men were now hitching the bosk to the wagons taken from the camp of the Lady Sabina.

The first team of bosk was hitched up, two of the great animals, broad, shaggy, with polished horns.

It was not the five-bladed slave whip, invented for the full and perfect punishment of an erring slave girl, but only a light, one-bladed bosk whip, little more than a switch of leather, a mere incitement and encouragement to better performance on the part of a slacking plow beast, but it struck my back like a hot snake and a rifle shot.

It was not my fault I was not a female bosk, like so many of the lasses of peasant stock.

I was in Sirik, fastened to a ring, chained in the bold of theDorna, the ship of the dreaded pirate and slaver, Bosk of Port Kar.

In moments her quick hands had accomplished this business and she surrendered to Bosk of Port Kar both the paper and the marking stick.

In the arms of a man such as Bosk of Port Kar I did not think her struggle would be successful.

Then, from behind, Bosk of Port Kar thrust the wadding in her mouth and secured it in place.

She woke early and stiff, and had made her way to the jacks and to the river to bathe before a bellow from Corporal Bosk brought the others out of their blankets.

Stammel gestured to Bosk, who came forward and took a handful of tags from the quartermaster.

They moved into one of the big barracks rooms, with Bosk and Devlin, another corporal, assigning bunks.

He was taller and thinner than Bosk, and looked as if he would smile more easily.