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Bode vs Bole - What's the difference?

bode | bole |

As a proper noun bode

is .

As a verb bole is

.

bode

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) boden, from (etyl) ). : Since 1740 also a shortening of forebode

Verb

(bod)
  • To indicate by signs, as future events; to be the omen of; to portend; to presage; to foreshow.
  • To foreshow something; to augur.
  • * Dryden
    • Whatever now / The omen proved, it boded well to you.
    Derived terms
    * bodement

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An omen; a foreshadowing.
  • * Chaucer
    • The owl eke, that of death the bode bringeth.
  • (obsolete, or, dialect) A bid; an offer.
    • (Sir Walter Scott)
  • A messenger; a herald.
    • (Robertson)
  • A stop; a halting; delay.

    • Etymology 2

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    Verb

    (head)
  • (bide)
  • * Tennyson
    • There that night they bode .

    References

    * [http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=bode&searchmode=none]

    Anagrams

    * English irregular simple past forms ----

    bole

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) bolr, akin to Danish bul and German .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The trunk or stem of a tree.
  • * Tennyson
    • Enormous elm-tree boles did stoop and lean.
  • * 1908 ,
    • 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.
  • (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.

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) : compare (etyl) bol.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.
    • (Coleridge)

    Etymology 3

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (old unit of measure)
    • (Mortimer)

    Anagrams

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