Boll vs Bolo - What's the difference?
boll | bolo |
The rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plant.
* 1853 ,
An old Scots dry measure, equal to six bushels.
To form a boll or seed vessel; to go to seed.
* Bible, Exodus ix. 31
A long, heavy, single-edged machete ().
A string or leather necktie secured with an ornamental slide ().
A request for law enforcement officers to B'e '''O'''n the ' Lo okout for a suspect.
Designating a type of punch; an uppercut.
*1953 , (Raymond Chandler), The Long Goodbye , Penguin 2010, p. 141:
*:He jerked me off balance and the hand with the brass knucks came around in a looping bolo punch.
To attack or despatch with a bolo knife.
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*:Selwyn, sitting up rumpled and cross-legged on the floor, after having boloed Drina to everybody's exquisite satisfaction, looked around at the sudden rustle of skirts to catch a glimpse of a vanishing figureāa glimmer of ruddy hair and the white curve of a youthful face, half-buried in a muff.
As a noun boll
is bowl, dish.As an acronym bolo is
an all-points bulletin (apb) with information to pick up an individual.boll
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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.
Derived terms
* boll weevil * throat-bollVerb
(en verb)- The barley was in the ear, and the flax was bolled .