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Meaning of BOOLY

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Boo"ly\, n.; pl. {Boolies}. [Ir. buachail cowherd; bo cow
+ giolla boy.]
A company of Irish herdsmen, or a single herdsman, wandering
from place to place with flocks and herds, and living on
their milk, like the Tartars; also, a place in the mountain
pastures inclosed for the shelter of cattle or their keepers.
[Obs.] [Written also {boley}, {bolye}, {bouillie}.]
--Spenser.
 
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