bough v Cp DAE ~ v to cover [a floor] with boughs' (1861). To cover or spread a 'fish-flake' with conifer branches so that the air circulates in the fish-drying process.
   1895 Christmas Review 18 The time selected was generally towards the end of May, when the flakes were all 'boughed,' the stage-heads finished. T 393/4-67 Now everything you saw here was all done out the best with longers, and all boughed. 1979 COOPER 20 "The Fisher Wife and Mother": Her bent form moving with a quick'ning tread / O'er the uneven ragged bough'd fish-flake.

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