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The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), general editor James Orr — public domain, printed whole.

bout (tawekh, "bisection," "middle"): The best part of a sling that contains the stone, "in the midst of the bought of a sling" (1Sa 25:29 King James Version, margin, the King James Version "out of the middle," the Revised Version (British and American) "from the hollow").