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Webster 1913 Edition

Boll

Boll

,
Noun.
[OE.
bolle
boll, bowl, AS.
bolla
. See
Bowl
a vessel.]
1.
The pod or capsule of a plant, as of flax or cotton; a pericarp of a globular form.
2.
A Scotch measure, formerly in use: for wheat and beans it contained four Winchester bushels; for oats, barley, and potatoes, six bushels. A boll of meal is 140 lbs. avoirdupois. Also, a measure for salt of two bushels.
[Sometimes spelled
bole
.]

Boll

,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Bolled
.]
To form a boll or seed vessel; to go to seed.
The barley was in the ear, and the flax was
bolled
.
Ex. ix. 31.

Webster 1828 Edition

Boll

BOLL

,
Noun.
The pod or capsule of a plant, as of flax; a pericarp. Bole, a measure of six bushels, is sometimes written in this manner.

BOLL

,
Verb.
I.
To form into a pericarp or seed-vessel.
The barley was in the ear and the flax was bolled. Exodus 9.
Heb.,Gr., as translated by the seventy.
Bollard timbers, in a ship, or knight-heads, are two timbers, rising just within the stem, one on each side of the bowsprit, to secure its end.
In docks, bollards are large posts set in the ground on each side, to which are lashed large blocks, through which are reeved the transporting hawsers for docking and undocking ships.

Definition 2024

Boll

Boll

See also: boll

German Low German

Alternative forms

Noun

Boll m (plural Bollen)

  1. bun; roll
  2. (botany) bulb

Luxembourgish

Etymology

Borrowing from French bol.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bol/
    • Rhymes: -ol

Noun

Boll f ‎(plural Bollen)

  1. bowl, dish
  2. ladle

Plautdietsch

Noun

Boll m ‎(plural Bulls)

  1. bull

boll

boll

See also: Boll

English

Noun

boll ‎(plural bolls)

  1. The rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plant.
    • 1853, Solomon Northup, Twelve Years a Slave
      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.
  2. An old Scots dry measure, equal to six bushels.

Translations

Derived terms

Verb

boll ‎(third-person singular simple present bolls, present participle bolling, simple past and past participle bolled)

  1. To form a boll or seed vessel; to go to seed.

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse bǫllr ‎(“ball, globe”), from Proto-Germanic *balluz.

Pronunciation

Noun

boll c

  1. a ball; a more or less spherical object which is not hard or unyielding

Declension

Inflection of boll 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative boll bollen bollar bollarna
Genitive bolls bollens bollars bollarnas

Related terms

  • bandyboll
  • bolla
  • bollbegåvning
  • bollbehandling
  • bollek
  • bollformig
  • bollgeni
  • bollhav
  • bollhållare
  • bollkalle
  • bollklubb
  • bollkontakt
  • bollkontroll
  • bollkänsla
  • bollning
  • bollplan
  • bollplank
  • bollpojke
  • bollsinne
  • bollspel

See also

References

Etymology

From Middle Low German bolle, from Old Saxon bollo, from Proto-Germanic *bullô, *bullǭ. More at bowl.

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