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noun

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)

verb

Boll v. i. (past & past part. bolled) To form a boll or seed vessel; to go to seed. "The barley was in the ear, and the flax was bolled."

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Etymology of 'Boll'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Boll" Quotes from Famous Books

... as pink as a rose, And white as a cotton-boll; Let us follow the plan of the folk in Japan, And dance for your Feast, little Doll-doll-doll, And dance ...

— Pinafore Palace • Various

... he acted yet more completely the part for which he was born—that of a great Baron and a leader. Two bullocks, and six sheep, weekly, were the allowance when the Baron was at home, and the number was not greatly diminished during his absence. A boll of malt was weekly brewed into ale, which was used by the household at discretion. Bread was baked in proportion for the consumption of his domestics and retainers; and in this scene of plenty had Roland Graeme now lived for several years. It formed a bad introduction ...

— The Abbot • Sir Walter Scott

... was not without a kind of natural religiousness. And in the achievement of a type of beauty so national and vernacular, the votaries of purely Dutch art might well feel that the Italianisers, like Berghem, Boll, and Jan Weenix went ...

— Imaginary Portraits • Walter Pater

... plentiful supply and a lower price for raw cotton. And so far at least as the increased supply is concerned, this must necessarily be the effect, "other things being equal"; though, to be sure, it might be outweighed and obscured by other influences such as the boll-weevil. But it is not the case that an increased demand for mutton must necessarily increase the supply or lower the price of wool; and it is most unlikely to do so in any similar degree. For, here, the separate marginal costs ...

— Supply and Demand • Hubert D. Henderson

... the presbytery to mock religious rites; and when desired to give God thanks for his meat, he said, "Take a sackful of prayers to the mill and grind them, and take your breakfast of them." To others he said, "I will give you a two-pence, to pray until a boll of meal, and one stone of butter, fall from heaven through the house rigging (roof) to you." When bread and cheese were laid on the ground by him, he said, "If I leave this, I will long cry to God before he give it me again." To others he said, "Take a bannock, ...

— Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 (of 3) • Isaac D'Israeli

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