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bossage

In masonry, projecting, rough-finished stone left during construction for carving later in final decorative form.

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bosket

A grove; a thicket or small grouping of trees in a garden, park, or the like.

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borrow pit

A bank or pit from which earth is taken for use as fill elsewhere.

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borrowed light

1. A frame in an interior partition which is glazed, thereby permitting light from one interior space to fall in

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borrow

Material taken from one location for use as fill elsewhere.

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borning room

In colonial New England houses, a small room (adjacent to the warm kitchen or keeping room) in which babies were

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boring, borehole

A hole drilled in the ground to obtain soil samples for evaluation and to obtain information about the strata.

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