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Bole vs Bove - What's the difference?

bole | bove |

As a noun bole

is the trunk or stem of a tree.

As a preposition bove is

above.

bole

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) bolr, akin to Danish bul and German .

Noun

(en noun)
  • The trunk or stem of a tree.
  • * Tennyson
    • Enormous elm-tree boles did stoop and lean.
  • * 1908 ,
    • A fine powder filled the air and caressed the cheek with a tingle in its touch, and the black boles of the trees showed up in a light that seemed to come from below.
  • (Scotland) An aperture with a shutter in the wall of a house, for giving air or light.
  • (Scotland) A small closet.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • Open the bole wi' speed, that I may see if this be the right Lord Geraldin.

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) : compare (etyl) bol.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any of several varieties of friable earthy clay, usually coloured red by iron oxide, and composed essentially of hydrous silicates of alumina, or more rarely of magnesia.
  • (obsolete) A bolus; a dose.
    • (Coleridge)

    Etymology 3

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (old unit of measure)
    • (Mortimer)

    Anagrams

    * ----

    bove

    English

    Alternative forms

    * 'bove

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • Above.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.iii:
    • Her Sea-god syre she dearely did perswade, / T'endow her sonne with threasure and rich store, / Boue all the sonnes, that were of earthly wombes ybore.
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