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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

... fact that he wore only a thin pajama suit he led the way to the open window. Thrusting his head out he listened attentively. A single tree grew a few feet from the window. Nimbly the lad sprang to its bole, clinging cat-like for an instant before he clambered quietly to the ground below. Close behind him came the great ape. Two hundred yards away a spur of the jungle ran close to the straggling town. Toward this the lad ...

— The Son of Tarzan • Edgar Rice Burroughs

... he knows, Back where the yucca grows And cactus bole; Where the coyote cries, Where the black buzzard flies ...

— The California Birthday Book • Various

... ways. You would not have believed, if you had seen him in Melbourne, and heard him speak such English, that he could go about in an old ragged, dirty shooting-coat, with a cabbage-tree hat as black as a coal nearly—that he could live in a slab hut, with a clay, or rather, a dirt floor, and a window-bole with no glass in it—and that he could have all the cooking and half the work of the house done at the fireside he sat at, and sit down at a table without a table-cloth, and drink tea out of tin pannikins. The notion of getting such wages in a place with such surroundings quite ...

— Mr. Hogarth's Will • Catherine Helen Spence

... and Moulthrop.—In their description of this subspecies from Ohio, Bole and Moulthrop (1942:89-95) made no mention of specimens in the United States Biological Surveys Collection from Ellsworth and Milford Center, Ohio, which stand in the literature (see Jackson, 1928:49) as Sorex ...

— Taxonomy and Distribution of Some American Shrews • James S Findley

... this balsam I anoint thee, With this salve thy wounds I cover, Cover well thine injured places; Now the birch-tree shall recover, Grow more beautiful than ever." True, the birch-tree soon recovered, Grew more beautiful than ever, Grew more uniform its branches, And its bole more strong and stately. Thus it was be tried the balsam, Thus the magic salve he tested, Touched with it the splintered sandstone, Touched the broken blocks of granite, Touched the fissures in the mountains, And the broken parts united, All the fragments grew together. Then the young boy quick ...

— The Kalevala (complete) • John Martin Crawford, trans.

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