Vole vs Bole - What's the difference?
vole | bole |
The trunk or stem of a tree.
* Tennyson
* 1908 ,
(Scotland) An aperture with a shutter in the wall of a house, for giving air or light.
(Scotland) A small closet.
* Sir Walter Scott
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.
As verbs the difference between vole and bole
is that vole is to want while bole is .vole
English
(wikipedia vole)Etymology 1
Derived terms
* volelike * water voleEtymology 2
(etyl)Anagrams
* ----bole
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) bolr, akin to Danish bul and German .Noun
(en noun)- Enormous elm-tree boles did stoop and lean.
- 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.
- 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)- (Coleridge)