Note: Regarding the quot. from Ayenbite assigned to sense (b), note that (as P. Gradon reports) 'boune' is actually the French word, recorded in the margin against a blank left in the English translation, as if awaiting the proper English equivalent. The sentence appears to describe the initial marking-out of a building plot, with 'point' ('pricke') and 'boune'. Gradon takes these as abstracts 'beginning position' and 'end position, boundary, limit'; they might also be taken more concretely as 'stake' and 'boundary rock' (things that someone might reasonably be said to 'nim'); as anyone knows who has laid out a foundation, such things are normally connected by a cord, hence the paraphrase in Vices & V.(2) as respectively 'mark' and 'line.' But there seems no reason to interpret 'boune' itself as a line of any kind; so sense (b) should probably be collapsed into sense (a), whether abstractly or concretely, and the 'line' sense abandoned.