Boll

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  • noun. The seed-bearing capsule of certain plants, especially cotton and flax.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To form into or produce bolls or rounded seed-vessels.
  • Same as boln.
  • To increase.
  • noun. A round vessel for containing liquids; a bowl. See bowl, of which boll is the earlier spelling.
  • noun. A vesicle or bubble.
  • noun. A rounded pod or capsule of a plant, as of flax or cotton. See cut under cotton-plant.
  • noun. A round knob.
  • noun. An old Scotch dry measure, also used in Durham, Northumberland, Westmoreland, and the Isle of Man.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To form a boll or seed vessel; to go to seed.
  • noun. The pod or capsule of a plant, as of flax or cotton; a pericarp of a globular form.
  • noun. 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.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plant.
  • verb. To form a boll or seed vessel; to go to seed.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plant
  • Word Usage
    "This problem has been going on since Monty was a lad its called boll**cks."
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    Form
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    capsule  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Cole  Dole  Kohl  Nicole  Ole  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
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    Words with the same meaning
    ball  balloon  bladder  blob  bolus  
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    bole