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noun

Bole n. The trunk or stem of a tree, or that which is like it. "Enormous elm-tree boles did stoop and lean."

Bole n. An aperture, with a wooden shutter, in the wall of a house, for giving, occasionally, air or light; also, a small closet. (Scot.) "Open the bole wi'speed, that I may see if this be the right Lord Geraldin."

Bole n. A measure. See Boll, n., 2.

Bole n.

Any one of several varieties of friable earthy clay, usually colored more or less strongly red by oxide of iron, and used to color and adulterate various substances. It was formerly used in medicine. It is composed essentially of hydrous silicates of alumina, or more rarely of magnesia. See Clay, and Terra alba.

A bolus; a dose.

Armenian bole. See under Armenian.

Bole Armoniac, or Bole Armoniak, Armenian bole. (Obs.)

Boll n.

The pod or capsule of a plant, as of flax or cotton; a pericarp of a globular form.

A Scotch measure, formerly in use: for wheat and beans it contained four Winchester bushels; for oats, barley, and potatoes, six bushels. A boll of meal is 140 lbs. avoirdupois. Also, a measure for salt of two bushels. (Sometimes spelled bole)

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"Bole" Quotes from Famous Books

... be in England Now that April's there, And whoever wakes in England Sees, some morning, unaware, That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf, While the chaffinch sings on the ...

— Robert Browning: How To Know Him • William Lyon Phelps

... looking like a small necktie; two white stripes running along the side of the head, and a large white patch covering the middle and greater wing-coverts. Altogether, an odd livery for a woodpecker. Silently he swung from bole to bole for a ...

— Birds of the Rockies • Leander Sylvester Keyser

... swift glance of comprehension. Then, without a word, she moved towards the bole of a tree and flung herself down with all the supple grace of a young faun. The artist snatched up his palette; the pose she had assumed without a hint from him was inimitable—the slender limbs relaxed and drooping exactly as though from sheer fatigue. He painted furiously, blocking in the limp ...

— The Lamp of Fate • Margaret Pedler

... huge elephant wheeled and bore down upon the hapless priests who had now scattered, terror-stricken, in every direction. The nearest he gored and threw high among the branches of a tree. One he seized in the coils of his trunk and broke upon a huge bole, dropping the mangled pulp to charge, trumpeting, after another. Two he trampled beneath his huge feet and by then the others had disappeared into the jungle. Now Tantor turned his attention once more to Tarzan for one of the symptoms of madness is ...

— Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar • Edgar Rice Burroughs

... bole, the body of a tree. hist, hush! bowl, a vessel. hissed, did hiss. boll, a pod. paws, the feet of beasts. nose, part of the face. pause, a stop. knows, does know. faun, a sylvan god. mote, a particle. fawn, a young deer. moat, a ditch. pride, vanity. toled, allured. pried, ...

— McGuffey's Eclectic Spelling Book • W. H. McGuffey

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