▪ I. bouman Sc.
(ˈbaʊmən, ˈbuːmən)
[app. f. bow n.4]
The tenant of a bowing.
| 1752 Stewart's Trial (Scots Mag. Sept. 458), John MacCol, bouman, having the charge of milk-cows upon a farm or shealing belonging to Stewart of Appin. 1886 Stevenson Kidnapped xii. 108 The farmers and the crofters and the boumen..wringing their very plaids to get a second rent. Ibid. 204 note, A bouman is a tenant who takes stock from the landlord and shares with him the increase. |
▪ II. bouman
obs. form of bowman.