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simple past and past participle of buy. quotations examples
In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%.
2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8837, page 74
plural boughts
(obsolete) A bend; flexure; curve; a hollow angle.
(obsolete) A bend or hollow in a human or animal body.
(obsolete) A curve or bend in a river, mountain chain, or other geographical feature. quotations
the river it selfe turneth North east and is stil a navigable streame. On the westerne side of this bought is Tauxenent with 40 men.
1612, John Smith, Map of Virginia, Kupperman, published 1988, page 159
(obsolete) The part of a sling that contains the stone.
(obsolete) A fold, bend, or coil in a tail, snake's body etc. quotations
Her huge long taile her den all ouerspred, / Yet was in knots and many boughtes vpwound, / Pointed with mortall sting.
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie