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Boul vs Boll - What's the difference?

boul | boll |

As nouns the difference between boul and boll

is that boul is a curved handle while boll is the rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plant.

As a verb boll is

to form a boll or seed vessel; to go to seed.

boul

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A curved handle.
    • (Sir Walter Scott)
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    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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