bole
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- (General American) IPA(key): /bol/
Audio (US) (file) - (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /bəʊl/, /bɒʊl/
- Rhymes: -əʊl
- Homophone: bowl
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle English bole, from Old Norse bolr, akin to Danish bul and German Bohle (“plank”). See also bulwark (“defensive wall”).
Noun edit
bole (plural boles)
- The trunk or stem of a tree.
- 1842, Alfred Tennyson, “A Dream of Fair Women”, in Poems, volume 1, page 188:
- Enormous elm-tree boles did stoop and lean / Upon the dusky brushwood underneath / Their broad curved branches, fledged with clearest green, / New from its silken sheath.
- 1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC:
- 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.
Translations edit
Etymology 2 edit
Ancient Greek βῶλος (bôlos, “clod or lump of earth”): compare French bol. Doublet of bolus.
Noun edit
bole (countable and uncountable, plural boles)
- 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.
- 2018 April 14, “8 things to know about İznik pottery”, in Christie's[1]:
- Good Iznik has strong colours well-contained within their outlines and a very clean, clear white. The red colour, made with Armenian bole (an earthy clay) should be thick and proud of the surface.
- The shade of reddish brown which resembles this clay.
- bole:
- (obsolete) A bolus; a dose.
- 1649, Jeremy Taylor, “An Apology for Authorized and Set Forms of Liturgy Against the Pretence of the Spirit”, in Charles Page Eden, editor, The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor, D.D., volume V, published 1849, page 294:
- […] or else […] the churches were very incurious to swallow such a bole, if no pretension could have been reasonably made for their justification.
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Etymology 3 edit
Noun edit
bole (plural boles)
- Alternative form of boll (old unit of measure).
- 1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], 2nd edition, London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], published 1708, →OCLC:
- Take then good Barley newly thrashed and well purged from the Chaff, and put thereof eight Boles, that is about ſix English Quarters, in a Stone - trough
Etymology 4 edit
Noun edit
bole (plural boles)
- (Scotland) An aperture with a shutter in the wall of a house, to admit air or light.
- 1816, Walter Scott, The Antiquary, Adam and Charles Black, published 1862, page 220:
- "Open the bole," said the old woman firmly and hastily to her daughter-in-law, “open the bole wi' speed, that I may see if this be the right Lord Geraldin […] .
- (Scotland) A small closet.
Anagrams edit
Albanian edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Variant of bolle. Occurs exclusively in the plural form.
Noun edit
bole m pl
Related terms edit
Buol edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *balay, from Proto-Austronesian *balay.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bole
Czech edit
Alternative forms edit
- boleje (verb)
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
bole
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
bole
Dama (Sierra Leone) edit
Etymology edit
Perhaps related to Vai [script needed] (boi, “structure without walls”) or Mende bolo (“courthouse with high walls”) (having the definite form bolei.
Noun edit
bole
References edit
- Dalby, T. D. P. (1963) “The extinct language of Dama”, in Sierra Leone Language Review, volume 2, Freetown: Fourah Bay College, pages 50–54
Galician edit
Verb edit
bole
- third-person singular present indicative of bulir
- (reintegrationist norm) inflection of bulir:
Latvian edit
Etymology edit
From English bowl, probably via German Bowle. Alternative historical forms: bols. First attested use to mean a bowl for making punch – 1880. First attested use to refer to the beverage itself – 1886.[1]
Pronunciation edit
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Noun edit
bole f (5th declension)
- (dated sense) a bowl for making punch
- Bowle: bole (punša un citu tādu dzērienu kauss) – Bowle (German): bole (a bowl for punch or similar drinks).[2]
- punch (drink made of wine, diluted with juices, syrups and fruit, often with added cognac or rhum)
- zemeņu bole – strawberry punch
- boles trauks – punch bowl
Declension edit
Synonyms edit
- (punch): punšs
References edit
Lower Sorbian edit
Verb edit
bole
Middle English edit
Etymology 1 edit
From a mixture of Old English bula, *bulla, and Old Norse boli, both from Proto-Germanic *bulô.
Alternative forms edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
- bull, steer, male cow
- (heraldry) A heraldic bull
- (astrology) Taurus (zodiac)
- (astronomy) Taurus (constellation)
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
References edit
- “bōle, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.
Etymology 2 edit
Alternative forms edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bole (plural boles)
Descendants edit
- English: bole
References edit
- “bōle, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.
Portuguese edit
Verb edit
bole
Serbo-Croatian edit
Participle edit
bole (Cyrillic spelling боле)
West Makian edit
Etymology edit
From Malay boleh (“can, may, possible”).
Pronunciation edit
Interjection edit
bole
References edit
- Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours[2], Pacific linguistics
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