Bole

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The trunk of a tree.
  • n. Any of various soft fine clays, especially a reddish-brown variety used as a pigment.
  • n. A moderate reddish brown.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The trunk or stem of a tree.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The trunk or stem of a tree, or that which is like it.
  • n. An aperture, with a wooden shutter, in the wall of a house, for giving, occasionally, air or light; also, a small closet.
  • n. A measure. See boll, n., 2.
  • n. 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.
  • n. A bolus; a dose.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The body or stem of a tree.
  • n. Anything of cylindrical shape; a roll; a pillar: as, boles of stone.
  • n. A small boat suited for a rough sea.
  • n. A general term including certain compact, amorphous, soft, more or less brittle, unctuous clays, having a conchoidal fracture and greasy luster, and varying in color from yellow, red, or brown to nearly black.
  • n. A bolus; a dose.
  • n. Another spelling of boll.
  • n. A small square recess or cavity in a wall; also, a window or opening in the wall of a house, usually with a wooden shutter instead of glass.
  • n. A name given in the north of England to a place where lead was anciently smelted.
  • n. In medieval and early Renaissance art, an earthy paste added over gesso as a ground for tempera painting and gilding.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the main stem of a tree; usually covered with bark; the bole is usually the part that is commercially useful for lumber
  • n. a soft oily clay used as a pigment (especially a reddish brown pigment)
  • n. a Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria and closely related to Hausa
  • Equivalent
    armoniak   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    stalk    stem    dirt    pigment    soil    west chadic   
    Variant
    boll    clay    terra alba   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    bolus    dose   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Cole    Dole    Kohl    Nicole    Ole    Pole    Seoul    Sol    atoll    boll   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    copse    bola    banister