BOLL
\bˈɒl], \bˈɒl], \b_ˈɒ_l]\
Definitions of BOLL
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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The pod or capsule of a plant, as of flax or cotton; a pericarp of a globular form.
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A Scotch measure, formerly in use: for wheat and beans it contained four Winchester bushels; for oats, barley, and potatoes, six bushels. A boll of meal is 140 lbs. avoirdupois. Also, a measure for salt of two bushels.
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To form a boll or seed vessel; to go to seed.
By Oddity Software
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The pod or capsule of a plant, as of flax or cotton; a pericarp of a globular form.
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A Scotch measure, formerly in use: for wheat and beans it contained four Winchester bushels; for oats, barley, and potatoes, six bushels. A boll of meal is 140 lbs. avoirdupois. Also, a measure for salt of two bushels.
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To form a boll or seed vessel; to go to seed.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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One of the round heads or seed-vessels of flax, poppy, etc.: a pod or capsule: a Scotch dry measure-six imperial bushels, not now legally in use.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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