Bole

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  • noun. Any of various soft fine clays, especially a reddish-brown variety used as a pigment.
  • noun. A moderate reddish brown.
  • noun. The trunk of a tree.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The body or stem of a tree.
  • noun. Anything of cylindrical shape; a roll; a pillar: as, boles of stone.
  • noun. A small boat suited for a rough sea.
  • noun. Another spelling of boll.
  • noun. A general term including certain compact, amorphous, soft, more or less brittle, unctuous clays, having a conchoidal fracture and greasy luster, and varying in color from yellow, red, or brown to nearly black.
  • noun. A bolus; a dose.
  • noun. In medieval and early Renaissance art, an earthy paste added over gesso as a ground for tempera painting and gilding.
  • noun. A small square recess or cavity in a wall; also, a window or opening in the wall of a house, usually with a wooden shutter instead of glass.
  • noun. A name given in the north of England to a place where lead was anciently smelted.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The trunk or stem of a tree, or that which is like it.
  • noun. An aperture, with a wooden shutter, in the wall of a house, for giving, occasionally, air or light; also, a small closet.
  • noun. A measure. See boll, n., 2.
  • noun. Any one of several varieties of friable earthy clay, usually colored more or less strongly red by oxide of iron, and used to color and adulterate various substances. It was formerly used in medicine. It is composed essentially of hydrous silicates of alumina, or more rarely of magnesia. See clay, and terra alba.
  • noun. A bolus; a dose.
  • noun. See under Armenian.
  • noun. Armenian bole.
  • noun. undefined
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The trunk or stem of a tree.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the main stem of a tree; usually covered with bark; the bole is usually the part that is commercially useful for lumber
  • noun. a soft oily clay used as a pigment (especially a reddish brown pigment)
  • noun. a Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria and closely related to Hausa
  • Word Usage
    "The tree is usually medium sized, growing in Australia up to 25 m tall; the bole is short, 4-5 m high (and to IS m in rare cases), and often crooked or twisted."
    Equivalent
    armoniak  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    dirt  pigment  soil  stalk  stem  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Cole  Dole  Kohl  Nicole  Ole  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    banister  bola  copse  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    anthrophore  axis  barrel  bolus  cane  
    variant
    boll  clay  terra alba