As verbs the difference between bolled and billed
is that
bolled is past tense of boll while
billed is past tense of bill.
As an adjective billed is
having a specified kind of bill (beak or beak-like projection).
bolled English
Verb
(head)
(boll)
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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billed English
Verb
(head)
(bill)
Adjective
(-)
Having a specified kind of bill (beak or beak-like projection).
Derived terms
* duckbilled
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