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busk

 (v): play music in a public place and solicit money for it
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3 months ago yarb said:

..ladies' busks wrought out of the Right Whale-bone, and other like skrimshander articles, as the whalemen call the numerous little ingenious contrivances they elaborately carve out of the rough material...

- Melville, Moby-Dick, ch. 57

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