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Bolas vs Bolis - What's the difference?

bolas | bolis |

As nouns the difference between bolas and bolis

is that bolas is a throwing weapon made of weights on the ends of interconnected cords, designed to capture animals by entangling their legs while bolis is a meteor or brilliant shooting star, followed by a train of light or sparks; especially one which explodes.

bolas

English

(wikipedia bolas)

Noun

(en-plural noun)
  • A throwing weapon made of weights on the ends of interconnected cords, designed to capture animals by entangling their legs.
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    bolis

    English

    Noun

  • A meteor or brilliant shooting star, followed by a train of light or sparks; especially one which explodes.
  • * 1851 , British Association for the Advancement of Science, Report (volume 20, page 90)
    • A bolis appearing as large as an orange, with a train some yards in length, crossed Wrenbury, Cheshire, about 10 p.m. (p. 305). The observer was my brother, Mr. William Thomson, surgeon, Wrenbury, near Nantwich.
    (Webster 1913) ----