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Rh then in been regarded as Norse “busa”, to precipitate; rush on. — [bam·bos·əl],, to turn upside down; to confuse; amaze; , 1) in disorder; pell-mell. 2) confused; amazed. , This is more closely allied to “bamboozle” than and -.

bamp [ba‘mp],, to harp on the same topic constantly; nag about the same thing, to b. upon a ting. The form seems to be influenced by “bump”.
 * bamba (to make a drumming sound)?

band [bānd],, 1) band in general; a tether, see ; de b. o’ de = de ; — one of the bands ( of rush or coarse grass, bent-grass) put round a straw-basket, , plaited in between the straw-bands, = ;  band, ,  band. 2) bunch; bundle; two objects tied together, a) two small bunches (, ;  “beet”) of rush or straw tied together, a b. o’ floss, o’ gloy; b) two fish tied together and hung up to dry, coalfish, a b. o’ ;. band,, bundle; bunch. 3) a plank across the bottom of a boat, ribs of a boat; also and  “band” in the same sense. 4) a long stone, bond-stone, laid crosswise when building a stone wall; also “t’rough-” and . bandstokk, , binding-joist in a building; band-stane,, a stone laid crosswise through a wall.

banabak,, see.

band [bānd],, to tie fish, coalfish, together in strings. of , , in sense of 2 b. — In the sense of tethering the cow in the byre, to b. de coo, is doubtless band. bandku [bāndku],, a cow fastened in the byre.

bang [baŋ],, 1) crack; noise; sudden, violent movement; of living beings, persons: to come or geng [‘go’] wi’ a b.; of a storm suddenly rising: he cam’ wi’ a b., it came with violence; of wind, : he guid [‘went’] wi’ a b. to de sud (sooth)-east; of the tide: de b. o’ de tide, the tide at its highest, a b. o’ tide, strongly-running tide, 2) a knock; blow, a b. at or upo de door; ,  — bang,, a) noise; din; uproar; b) knocking; banga, , to knock; hammer, in special sense: to knock at a door; bang, In, bang is also used in the sense of the word, : a start; springing away; speed.

bang [baŋ],, 1) to knock, at a door, to b. at (upo) de door; banga, , to knock (ata door). 2) to come or to go with sudden vehemence; to come or geng ; 3) to dash away.
 * see above,, 1.

bangi [baŋgi],, something thick and round, : a) a thick cake, brøni, made of barley- or oatmeal, baked on a gridiron, usually with a lump of tallow in the middle; tallen [‘tallow’]-b. = fatti-; ; b) (small) round or roundish stone, mostly in the “row-b.” (L.Sc. row =  roll;  ); ; c) in the -b., great jelly-fish, medusa;  From the root “bang-” denoting something thick, heavy and clumsy;   bangsa,, to walk heavily and clumsily; bangsi, , a bear ( a heavy and clumsy figure).

bangsgrip [ba‘ŋsgrıp],, trial of strength, in which two persons clutch each other’s bent fingers and pull; to tak’ a b.  bear’s hug. bangsi, and  bamse, ,