Boll

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Boll \Boll\, n. [OE. bolle boll, bowl, AS. bolla. See {Bowl} a
     vessel.]
     1. The pod or capsule of a plant, as of flax or cotton; a
        pericarp of a globular form.
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     2. 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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Boll \Boll\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Bolled}.]
     To form a boll or seed vessel; to go to seed.
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           The barley was in the ear, and the flax was bolled.
                                                    --Ex. ix. 31.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  boll
       n 1: the rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plant
       2: German novelist and writer of short stories (1917-1985)
          [syn: {Heinrich Boll}, {Heinrich Theodor Boll}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  46 Moby Thesaurus words for "boll":
     ball, balloon, bladder, blob, bolus, bubble, bulb, bulbil, bulblet,
     burr, capsule, cod, ellipsoid, follicle, geoid, globe, globelet,
     globoid, globule, glomerulus, gob, gobbet, hull, husk, knob, knot,
     legume, legumen, oblate spheroid, orb, orbit, orblet, pease cod,
     pellet, pericarp, pod, prolate spheroid, rondure, seed pod,
     seed vessel, seedbox, seedcase, silique, sphere, spheroid,
     spherule