Bole

Quick meaning: Bole is a noun meaning The trunk or stem of a tree.

Meaning

The trunk or stem of a tree.

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

[…]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[…].

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.

Word Forms

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Synonyms for bole

Depending on context, synonyms include trunk.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include trunk, log, stump, core, tree, stalk.

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