bole Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a soft oily clay used as a pigment (especially a reddish brown pigment)
  2. noun the main stem of a tree; usually covered with bark; the bole is usually the part that is commercially useful for lumber
    tree trunk; trunk.
  3. noun a Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria and closely related to Hausa
    Bolanci.

WordNet

Bole noun
Etymology
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.
Definitions
  1. The trunk or stem of a tree, or that which is like it.
    Enormous elm-tree boles did stoop and lean. Tennyson.
Bole noun
Etymology
Etym. doubtful.
Definitions
  1. 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.
Bole noun
Definitions
  1. A measure. See Boll, n., 2. Mortimer.
Bole noun
Etymology
Gr. a clod or lump of earth: cf. F. bol, and also L. bolus morsel. Cf. Bolus.
Definitions
  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. Chaucer.

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