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BOLL, n. The pod or capsule of a plant, as of flax; a pericarp. Bole, a measure of six bushels, is sometimes written in this manner.
BOLL, v.i. To form into a pericarp or seed-vessel.
Bollard timbers, in a ship, or knight-heads, are two timbers, rising just within the stem, one on each side of the bowsprit, to secure its end.
In docks, bollards are large posts set in the ground on each side, to which are lashed large blocks, through which are reeved the transporting hawsers for docking and undocking ships.
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.] To form a boll or seed vessel; to go to
seed.
The barley was in the ear, and the flax was
bolled. | ||||||||