A period of something, especially one painful or unpleasant. / (boxing) A boxing match. / (fencing) An assault (a fencing encounter) at which the score is kept. / (roller derby) A roller derby match.

To contest a bout.

(colloquial) Aphetic form of about

simple past tense and past participle of bout

(colloquial or poetic) about.

plural of bout

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bout

present participle of bout

(intransitive, nautical) Alternative form of about ship (“to tack through 180 degrees”)

(dated) Words that rhyme, proposed in a parlour game as the ends of verses, to be filled out by the ingenuity of the person to whom they are offered.