Sc. [app. f. BOW sb.4] The tenant of a BOWING.
1752. Stewart’s Trial (Scots Mag., Sept., 458/2). John MacCol, bouman, having the charge of milk-cows upon a farm or shealing belonging to Dougal Stewart of Appin.
1886. Stevenson, Kidnapped, xii. 108. The farmers and the crofters and the boumen … wringing their very plaids to get a second rent. Ibid., 204, note. A bouman is a tenant who takes stock from the landlord and shares with him the increase.
