Bolned vs Bolled - What's the difference?
bolned | bolled |
(boln)
(obsolete) swollen; puffed out
* Ben Jonson
(boll)
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
As verbs the difference between bolned and bolled
is that bolned is past tense of boln while bolled is past tense of boll.bolned
English
Verb
(head)boln
English
Alternative forms
* bollenAdjective
(en adjective)- Thin, and boln out like a sail.
bolled
English
Verb
(head)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 .