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Webster 1913 Edition
Bole
Bole
,Noun.
[OE.
bole
, fr. Icel. bolr
; akin to Sw. bål
, Dan. bul
, trunk, stem of a tree, G. bohle
a thick plank or board; cf. LG. boll
round. Cf. Bulge
.] The trunk or stem of a tree, or that which is like it.
Enormous elm-tree
boles
did stoop and lean. Tennyson.
Bole
,Noun.
[Etym. doubtful.]
An aperture, with a wooden shutter, in the wall of a house, for giving, occasionally, air or light; also, a small closet.
[Scot.]
Open the
bole
wi’speed, that I may see if this be the right Lord Geraldin. Sir W. Scott.
1.
Any one of several varieties of friable earthy clay, usually colored more or less strongly red by oxide of iron, and used to color and adulterate various substances. It was formerly used in medicine. It is composed essentially of hydrous silicates of alumina, or more rarely of magnesia. See
Clay
, and Terra alba
. 2.
A bolus; a dose.
Coleridge.
Webster 1828 Edition
Bole
BOLE
, n.1.
The body, or stem of a tree. [Not in use.]2.
A measure of corn, containing six bushels.BOLE
,Noun.
Armenian bole is of a bright red color, with a tinge of yellow, harder than the other kinds, and of a rough dusty surface.
Bole of Blois is yellow, lighter than the other kinds, and it effervesces with acids.
Bohemian bole is of a yellow color, with a cast of red, and of a flaky texture.
French bole is of a pale red color, variegated with specks of white and yellow.
Lemnian bole is of a pale red color.
Silesian bole is of a pale yellow color.
Definition 2024
Bole
Bole
English
Proper noun
Bole
Translations
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bole
bole
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /boʊl/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /bəʊl/, /bɒʊl/
- Rhymes: -əʊl
- Homophone: bowl
Noun
bole (plural boles)
- The trunk or stem of a tree.
- Tennyson
- Enormous elm-tree boles did stoop and lean.
- 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
- 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.
- Tennyson
- (Scotland) An aperture with a shutter in the wall of a house, for giving air or light.
- (Scotland) A small closet.
- Sir Walter Scott
- Open the bole wi' speed, that I may see if this be the right Lord Geraldin.
- Sir Walter Scott
Translations
the trunk or stem of a tree
Etymology 2
Ancient Greek βῶλος (bôlos, “clod or lump of earth”): compare French bol.
Noun
bole (plural boles)
- 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.
- (obsolete) A bolus; a dose.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- The churches were very incurious to swallow such a bole, if no pretension could have been reasonably made for their justification.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Etymology 3
Noun
bole (plural boles)
- Alternative form of boll (old unit of measure)
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Mortimer to this entry?)
Anagrams
Albanian
Alternative forms
Etymology
Variant of bolle. Occurs exclusively in the plural form.
Noun
bole ?
Related terms
Latvian
Etymology
From English bowl, probably via German Bowle. Alternative historical forms: bols. First attested use to mean a bowl for making punch – 1880. First attested use to refer to the beverage itself – 1886.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [būōle]
Noun
bole f (5th declension)
- (dated) a bowl for making punch
- Bowle: bole (punša un citu tādu dzērienu kauss) – Bowle (German): bole (a bowl for punch or similar drinks).[2]
- punch (drink made of wine, diluted with juices, syrups and fruit, often with added cognac or rhum)
- zemeņu bole – straberry punch
- boles trauks – punch bowl
Declension
Declension of bole (5th declension)
Synonyms
- (punch): punšs
References
- ↑ “bole” in Juris Baldunčiks (1989), Anglicismi latviešu valodā (Rīga: «Zinātne») ISBN 5-7966-0078-8.
- ↑ Brasche G., (1880), Deutsch-lettisches Wörterbuch, Riga; Leipzig, page 152.