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Bolled vs Polled - What's the difference?

bolled | polled |

As verbs the difference between bolled and polled

is that bolled is past tense of boll while polled is past tense of poll.

As an adjective polled is

lopped; said of trees having their tops cut off.

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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    polled

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (poll)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Lopped; said of trees having their tops cut off.
  • Cropped; bald.
    • The polled bachelor.