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Boll sb.1. 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. Boll sb.1 Forms: 1 bolla, 2–6 bolle, (6–7 bowle, 7 bol, bole), 7– boll. [A variant of BOWL sb.1:—OE. bolla = MDu. bolle, Du. bol, ON. bolli wk. masc., cognate with OHG. bolla, MHG. bolle wk. fem. ‘bud, globular vessel’; see BOWL. Sense 2 may also be compared with L. bulla, It. bolla, F. boule, bulle bubble.]

1   † 1.  Earlier spelling of BOWL sb.1, q.v.

2   † 2.  A vesicle or bubble. Obs.

3 a. 1300.  Fragm. Pop. Science (Wr.), 331. As ic seide ȝou er of þreo bollen, if ȝe understode; In þe nyþemeste bolle þer þe lyvre doþ out springe.

4 1398.  Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., XIX. cxxviii. (1495), 935. The bolle that ryseth on the water that boyleth … highte bulla.

5   3.  spec. A rounded seed-vessel or pod, as that of flax or cotton.

6 a. 1500[?].  Med. MS. Cathedr. Hereford, 8 (Halliw.). Take the bolle of the popy while it is grene.

7 1523.  Fitzherb., Husb., § 146. The bolles of flaxe … made drye with the son to get out the sedes.

8 1562.  Turner, Herbal, II. (1568), 39 a. These knoppes or heades [of flax] are called in Northumberland bowles.

9 1601.  Holland, Pliny, II. XIX. 30. A second kind of poppie called black, out of the heads or bols whereof a white juice or liquor issueth.

10 1660.  Sharrock, Vegetables, 22. They thresh it [flax] not out of the boles till March.

11 1865.  Livingstone, Zambesi, x. 214. They cultivate cotton … the staple being long and the boll larger than what is usually met with.

12   † 4.  A round knob on any utensil, piece of furniture, or the like. Obs.

13 a. 1600[?].  Turke & G., 220, in Furniv., Percy Folio, I. 98. Gawaines boy to it did leape, & gatt itt by the bowles great.

14 1660.  Howell, Dict., XII. The Bolls, i pomi, les pommes.

15   † 5.  The Adam’s apple: see THROAT-BOLL. Obs.

16   6.  Comb., as † boll-roaking (see quot.); † boll-weed, the Greater Knapweed (Centaurea Scabiosa); boll-worm, an insect that destroys the cotton boll or pod.

17 1641.  Best, Farm. Bks. (1856), 59. That [straw] which is layd in the filling overnight to save the stack from wettinge is called boll-roakinge of a stacke.

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