Bole

/bol/ · noun

Meaning

The trunk or stem of a tree..

Definitions by Sense

1. The trunk or stem of a tree.
2. 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.
3. The shade of reddish brown which resembles this clay.
4. (obsolete) A bolus; a dose.
5. Alternative form of boll (old unit of measure).
6. (Scotland) An aperture with a shutter in the wall of a house, to admit air or light.
7. (Scotland) A small closet.

Example Sentences

Enormous elm-tree boles did stoop and lean / Upon the dusky brushwood underneath / Their broad curved branches, fledged with clearest green, / New from its silken sheath.

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.

Good Iznik has strong colours well-contained within their outlines and a very clean, clear white. The red colour, made with Armenian bole (an earthy clay) should be thick and proud of the surface.

[…]or else[…]the churches were very incurious to swallow such a bole, if no pretension could have been reasonably made for their justification.

Take then good Barley newly thrashed and well purged from the Chaff, and put thereof eight Boles, that is about ſix English Quarters, in a Stone - trough

"Open the bole," said the old woman firmly and hastily to her daughter-in-law, “open the bole wi' speed, that I may see if this be the right Lord Geraldin[…].

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