Bolled

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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 Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Bolled
     (Ex. 9:31), meaning "swollen or podded for seed," was adopted in
     the Authorized Version from the version of Coverdale (1535). The
     Revised Version has in the margin "was in bloom," which is the
     more probable rendering of the Hebrew word. It is the fact that
     in Egypt when barley is in ear (about February) flax is
     blossoming.