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Noun: "a pub; a public house; a tavern"
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1641–42, Richard Brome, A Jovial Crew, or the Merry Beggars, act 2, scene 1:Sir, I can lay my function by. / And talk as wild and wantonly / As Tom, or Tib, or Jack, or Jill, / When they at bowsing ken do swill.
1647, John Fletcher, Beggars' Bush, act 2, scene 1:When last in conference at the bouzing-ken, / This other day we sat about our dead prince, / Of famous memory, (rest go with his rags!)
1715, Edward Ward, “Little Britain”, in A Vade Mecum for Malt-Worms: or, A Guide to Good Fellows, page 44:Else virtuous Sam, that is of Soaks no Novice, / Would never make this Bouzing-ken his Office,
1798 December, “Feast of Wit; or, Sportsman's Hall”, in The Sporting Magazine, St. Giles's Greek, page 164:The prize was valued at one hundred and fifty pounds, till the diamonds faded into glass, and the gold transmuted into Dutch-leaf and lead! the cull (by their contrivance) remained at the bowsing ken, cocking his organ, and tempering his fogus with a few flagges of crank and white-tape, till the flashmen had an opportunity for piking.
1828, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, chapter XXXII, in Pelham: or The Adventures of a Gentleman, revised edition, volume 2, Henry Colburn (Colburn's Modern Novelists), published 1835, page 302:"Zounds, Bess!" cried the tallest of them, "what cull's this? Is this a bowsing ken for every cove to shove his trunk in?"