Bole vs Obole - What's the difference?
bole | obole |
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.
As a verb bole
is .As a noun obole 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)