Boule

Quick meaning: Boule is a noun meaning One of the bowls used in the French game of boules.

Meaning

One of the bowls used in the French game of boules.

More Meanings

1. A single-crystal ingot produced by synthetic means.
2. A round loaf of bread.
3. A round piece of dough.
4. (transitive, cooking, rare, nonstandard) To shape (a piece of dough) into a ball.
5. (woodworking) Alternative form of buhl.
6. (woodworking) A through-sawn log with the slices restacked in the order and orientation they originally had in the log, usually with waney edges.
7. (historical) A council of citizens in Ancient Greece

Example Sentences

A live-sawn log kept as a unit is known as a boule

Specialty lumber dealers can cut and sticker a log "in the boule," so that boards hold the same relative position they had before milling

Behind him is lumber 'sawn in the boule.' Wood is more commonly sawn in this manner in Europe and is stacked in the order it comes from the log.

Wani had been wet about the game until he turned out to be good at it, and now he was absorbed and unironical, tripping after the ball, yapping and grinning when he bombed the other boules away from the jack-ball, or cochonnet.

Word Forms

• boules
• bouling
• bouled

Synonyms for boule

Depending on context, synonyms include boulle, buhl.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include buhl, boulle, pellet, bowl, jack-ball, bowls.

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