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A term of the wheelwright's craft is Bush (1566), the metal lining for the axle-hole of a
wheel; Skeat says it is ad. Du. bus, in the same sense, O.E.D. ad. M.Du. busse,
though the word does not appear to have this particular sense in M.Du.; the form is
not easy to account for, and O.E.D. refers to a similar change in the final consonant in
the early forms of blunderbuss and harquebus. The vb. is from the sb., Bush (1566),
to furnish with a bush; O.E.D. says that it appears to have been erroneously
associated with F. bouche, mouth, boucher, to stop up, or bouchon, cork, plug,
whence the frequent later form bouche; the association with these F. words may in
part account for the final consonant of the sb.
Brick-making has brought in two words.
Clamp (1596-7), a large quadrangular stack of bricks built for burning in the open air;
probably ad. M.Du. and Du. klamp, a heap; the sense in farming, a heap of earth lined
with straw, in which potatoes are k