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Bolled vs Belled - What's the difference?

bolled | belled |

As verbs the difference between bolled and belled

is that bolled is (boll) while belled is (bell).

As an adjective belled is

(heraldry) having bells (especially around the neck of an animal).

bolled

English

Verb

(head)
  • (boll)

    • boll

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plant.
  • * 1853 ,
    • 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.
  • An old Scots dry measure, equal to six bushels.

    • Derived terms

    * boll weevil * throat-boll

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To form a boll or seed vessel; to go to seed.
  • * Bible, Exodus ix. 31
    • The barley was in the ear, and the flax was bolled .
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    belled

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (heraldry) Having bells (especially around the neck of an animal)

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (bell)

    • References

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