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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
boast2
 
PRONUNCIATION:  bst
TRANSITIVE VERB:Inflected forms: boast·ed, boast·ing, boasts
To shape or form (stone) roughly with a broad chisel.
ETYMOLOGY:Origin unknown.
 
 
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