Usually means: Pull or hoist using tackle.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. bowse: Merriam-Webster
  2. bowse: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. bowse: Collins English Dictionary
  4. bowse: Vocabulary.com
  5. Bowse, bowse: Wordnik
  6. bowse: Wiktionary
  7. bowse: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Bowse, bowse: Dictionary.com
  9. Bowse: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. bowse: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. bowse: Rhymezone
  12. Bowse: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. bowse: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. Bowse: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  15. bowse: FreeDictionary.org
  16. bowse: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. bowse: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. bowse: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. bowse: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See bowsed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (bowse)

verb:  (archaic) To drink excessively and socially; to carouse.
noun:  A carouse; a drinking bout; a booze.
verb:  (nautical) To haul or hoist (something) with a tackle.

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