boul

See also: boul.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /buːl/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

boul (plural bouls)

1. (archaic, rare) A curved handle.
   • 1819, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Third Series. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:

     this comes to hand like the boul of a pint stoup

References

• “boul”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Antillean Creole

Noun

boul

1. clot; lump; clod

French

Noun

boul m (plural bouls)

1. Abbreviation of boulevard. Alternative form of boul.

Old French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *betullus, from Latin betulla, diminutive of Gaulish *betua, from Proto-Celtic *betwiyos, *betuyā (“birch”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷet-.

Also compare Catalan bedoll, Portuguese bétula, Italian betulla.

Noun

boul oblique singular, m (oblique plural bous or box or bouls, nominative singular bous or box or bouls, nominative plural boul)

1. birch (tree)

Descendants

• French: bouleau

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (boul)

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbo.ul]

Noun

boul m

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of bou