bough n Cp AND ~ 'used attrib. in combs to denote a type of structure' for sense 2.
   1 1987 FIZZARD 172 'You'd get out [of the motor car] when you saw a mud hole. You'd cut some boughs and put in the holes. And if she got stuck, we'd put tackle on the tree and haul her out and go on again.'
   2 Combs: bough bed, ~ whiffen, ~ whiffet.
   1986 Nfld Herald 12 Apr, p. 22 [We] would go off into the wilderness along the Southern Shore and set up camps from scratch. I used to make the bough bed. 1981 MAJOR 195 We might a gone off in the woods somewhere, away from the campsites altogether and fixed up a shelter out of boughs--a boughwiffen we calls it. 1986 SAUNDERS 81 Since a two-man wigwam only took two hours or so to put up and a bough whiffet much less, we were never stuck for shelter.

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