Definition of boll

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Boll (n.) 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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Hard Grass :: Hard grass () A name given to several different grasses, especially to the Roltbollia incurvata, and to the species of Aegilops, from one of which it is contended that wheat has been derived..
Bolled :: Bolled (imp. & p. p.) of Bol.
Gambolling :: Gambolling () of Gambo.
Boln :: Boln (a.) Alt. of Bolle.
Gambolled :: Gambolled () of Gambo.
Knighthead :: Knighthead (n.) A bollard timber. See under Bollard.
Bollandists :: Bollandists (n. pl.) The Jesuit editors of the Acta Sanctorum, or Lives of the Saints; -- named from John Bolland, who began the work..
Boll :: Boll (v. i.) To form a boll or seed vessel; to go to seed.
Bollen :: Bollen (a.) Swollen; puffed out.
Bolling :: Bolling (v. t.) A tree from which the branches have been cut; a pollard.
Bollworm :: Bollworm (n.) The larva of a moth (Heliothis armigera) which devours the bolls or unripe pods of the cotton plant, often doing great damage to the crops..
Brace :: Brace (n.) A vertical curved line connecting two or more words or lines, which are to be taken together; thus, boll, bowl; or, in music, used to connect staves..
Boll :: Boll (n.) The pod or capsule of a plant, as of flax or cotton; a pericarp of a globular form..
Bollard :: Bollard (n.) An upright wooden or iron post in a boat or on a dock, used in veering or fastening ropes..
Bollen :: Bollen (a.) See Boln, a..
Boll :: Boll (n.) 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..
Firlot :: Firlot (n.) A dry measure formerly used in Scotland; the fourth part of a boll of grain or meal. The Linlithgow wheat firlot was to the imperial bushel as 998 to 1000; the barley firlot as 1456 to 1000.
Throatboll :: Throatboll (n.) The Adam's apple in the neck.
Bole :: Bole (n.) A measure. See Boll, n., 2..
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