Bole vs Bote - What's the difference?
bole | bote |
The trunk or stem of a tree.
* Tennyson
* 1908 ,
(Scotland) An aperture with a shutter in the wall of a house, for giving air or light.
(Scotland) A small closet.
* Sir Walter Scott
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.
The atonement, compensation, amends, satisfaction, penance, expiation; as, manbote, a compensation for a man slain.
A payment of any kind.
A privilege or allowance of necessaries, especially in feudal times.
(legal, historical) A right to take wood from property not one's own.
(obsolete) repairs
(obsolete) advantage, benefit, profit, cure, remedy
As a verb bole
is .As a noun bote is
.bole
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) bolr, akin to Danish bul and German .Noun
(en noun)- Enormous elm-tree boles did stoop and lean.
- 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.
- 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)- (Coleridge)
Etymology 3
Anagrams
* ----bote
English
Alternative forms
* *Noun
(en-noun)- Iesu For synne þat hath my soule bounde, Let þi blessed blood be my bote . — Iesu þat art heuene
- Þey shulde..do bote to brugges þat to-broke were. — Pier's Plowman, 1400
- Heo lufeden bi wurten, bi moren, and bi rote; nas þer nan oðer boten . — Layamon's Brut, 1275
