bole

English

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Etymology 1

From Old Norse bolr, akin to Danish bul and German Bohle (“plank”). See also bulwark (“defensive wall”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -əʊl

Noun

bole (plural boles)

1. The trunk or stem of a tree.
   • Tennyson

     Enormous elm-tree boles did stoop and lean.

   • 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

     A fine powder filled the air and caressed the cheek with a tingle in its touch, and the black boles of the trees showed up in a light that seemed to come from below.

Translations

the trunk or stem of a tree

• Bulgarian: ствол (bg) (stvol), стъбло (bg) (stăblo)

• Czech: peň (cs) m

Etymology 2

Ancient Greek, a clod or lump of earth: compare French bol.

Noun

bole (plural boles)

1. Any of several varieties of friable earthy clay, usually coloured red by iron oxide, and composed essentially of hydrous silicates of alumina, or more rarely of magnesia.
2. (obsolete) A bolus; a dose.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Coleridge to this entry?)

Anagrams

• lobe

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Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *bhel-, *bhlē- 'to grow, spread, swell'. Compare Ancient Greek φαλλός (“penis”), Latin follis (“leather bag”), Old Irish ball (“limb, member, part, body part”), Old High German ballo, balla (“buttocks”). Occurs almost exclusively in the plural form.

Noun

bole

1. testicles

Related terms

• bile
• ballë
• mbjell
• pjell