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Definition of 'boll'English
Noun
( en-noun)
The rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plant.
* 1853 ,
- Sometimes the slave picks down one side of a row, and back upon the other, but more usually, there is one on either side, gathering all that has blossomed leaving the unopened bolls for a succeeding picking.
An old Scots dry measure, equal to six bushels.
Derived terms
* boll weevil
* throat-boll
Verb
( en-verb)
To form a boll or seed vessel; to go to seed.
* Bible, Exodus ix. 31
- The barley was in the ear, and the flax was bolled .
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Similar to 'boll'bbl, bel, bull, bell, ball, bol, bil, bill, bowel, bowl, boil, bail, biol, bawl, buhl, bool, beal, boul, bael
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