Hypertext Webster Gateway: "bogie"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Bogey \Bo"gey\, n.; pl. {Bogeys}. [Also {bogie}.]
1. A goblin; a bugbear.
I have become a sort of bogey -- a kill-joy. --Wm.
Black.
2. (Golf) A given score or number of strokes, for each hole,
against which players compete; -- said to be so called
because assumed to be the score of an imaginary first-rate
player called Colonel Bogey.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Bogie \Bo"gie\, n. [A dialectic word. N. of Eng. & Scot.]
A four-wheeled truck, having a certain amount of play around
a vertical axis, used to support in part a locomotive on a
railway track.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
bogie
n 1: an evil spirit [syn: {bogey}, {bogy}]
2: an unidentified (and possibly enemy) aircraft [syn: {bogy},
{bogey}]
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