bout

  1. Noun.  A period of something, usually painful or unpleasant.
  2. Noun.  (boxing) A boxing match.
  3. Noun.  (fencing) An assault (a fencing encounter) at which the score is kept.
  4. Noun.  A fighting competition.
  5. Noun.  (music) A bulge or widening in a musical instrument, such as either of the two characteristic bulges of a guitar.
  6. Noun.  (context, dated) The going and returning of a plough, or other implement used to mark the ground and create a headland, across a field.
  7. Preposition.  (colloquial) about.

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