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Bole1. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1888, rev. 2024. Bole1 Also 7 boal(e, 7–8 boll. [a. ON. bol-r masc., also written bulr, trunk of a tree; cf. MHG. bole (fem.), mod.G. bohle plank.]

1   The stem or trunk of a tree.

2 c. 1314.  Guy Warw. (1840), 260. His nek is greter than a bole.

3 c. 1325.  E. E. Allit. P., B. 622. By bole of þis brode tre we byde þe here.

4 1521.  Fisher, Wks. (1876), 315. The shadowe of the bole of the tree.

5 1641.  Evelyn, Mem. (1857), I. 32. Five upright and exceeding tall suckers, or bolls.

6 1677.  Plot, Oxfordsh., 158. Whose boughs shoot from the boal fifteen or sixteen yards.

7 1727.  Bradley, Fam. Dict., s.v. Dressing, Boughs and Suckers, which have made themselves and the Boll knotty.

8 1848.  Lytton, Harold, I. 306. Gnarled boles of pollard oaks and beeches.

9 1870.  Bryant, Iliad, IV. I. 129. A fair, smooth bole, with boughs Only on high.

10   b.  transf. Anything of a cylindrical shape like the trunk of a tree, as a roll, a pillar.

11 1676.  True Gentleman’s Delight (N.). Make it up in little long boles or rowles.

12 1884.  Pall Mall Gaz., 11 Jan., 1/2. The sky … seen between the boles of stone.

13   c.  Comb., as † bole-fashion adv., bole-like adj.

14 1578.  Lyte, Dodoens, IV. l. 508. Another Holy, whose roote is not bolefashion.

15 1854.  H. Miller, Sch. & Schm. (1858), 313. The bole-like stems of great plants.

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