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bole
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /bo?l/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /b??l/, /b??l/
- Rhymes: -??l
- Homophone: bowl
Etymology 1
From Middle English bole, from Old Norse bolr, akin to Danish bul and German Bohle (“plank”). See also bulwark (“defensive wall”).
Noun
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, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
- 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.
- 1842, Alfred Tennyson, A Dream of Fair Women, in Poems, Volume 1, page 188,
Translations
Etymology 2
Ancient Greek ????? (bôlos, “clod or lump of earth”): compare French bol. Doublet of bolus.
Noun
bole (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.
- (colour) The shade of reddish brown which resembles this clay.
- (obsolete) A bolus; a dose.
- 1649, Jeremy Taylor, An Apology for Authorized and Set Forms of Liturgy Against the Pretence of the Spirit, 1849, Charles Page Eden (editor), The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor, D.D., Volume V, 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.
- 1649, Jeremy Taylor, An Apology for Authorized and Set Forms of Liturgy Against the Pretence of the Spirit, 1849, Charles Page Eden (editor), The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor, D.D., Volume V, page 294,
Etymology 3
Noun
bole (plural boles)
- Alternative form of boll (old unit of measure).
Etymology 4
Noun
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, 1862, Adam and Charles Black, 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 […] .
- 1816, Walter Scott, The Antiquary, 1862, Adam and Charles Black, page 220,
- (Scotland) A small closet.
Anagrams
- Lebo, Loeb, lobe
Albanian
Alternative forms
- bolle
Etymology
Variant of bolle. Occurs exclusively in the plural form.
Noun
bole ?
- testicles
Related terms
- bile
- ballë
- mbjell
- pjell
Buol
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *balay, from Proto-Austronesian *balay.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?b????/
Noun
bole
- house
Czech
Alternative forms
- boleje (verb)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?bol?]
- Rhymes: -ol?
- Hyphenation: bo?le
Noun
bole
- vocative singular of bol
Verb
bole
- present masculine singular transgressive of bolet
Dama (Sierra Leone)
Etymology
Perhaps related to Vai [script needed] (boi, “structure without walls”) or Mende bolo (“courthouse with high walls”) (having the definite form bolei.
Noun
bole
- courthouse
References
- Dalby, T. D. P. (1963) , “The extinct language of Dama”, in Sierra Leone Language Review, volume 2, Freetown: Fourah Bay College, pages 50–54
Latvian
Etymology
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.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [b??le]
Noun
bole f (5th declension)
- (dated sense) a bowl for making punch
- Bowle: bole (punša un citu t?du dz?rienu kauss) – Bowle (German): bole (a bowl for punch or similar drinks).
- punch (drink made of wine, diluted with juices, syrups and fruit, often with added cognac or rhum)
- zeme?u bole – strawberry punch
- boles trauks – punch bowl
Declension
Synonyms
- (punch): punšs
References
Lower Sorbian
Verb
bole
- Superseded spelling of bóle.
Middle English
Etymology 1
From a mixture of Old English bula, *bulla, and Old Norse boli, both from Proto-Germanic *bulô.
Alternative forms
- bule, bul, bolle, boule, bool, boole
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?bul(?)/, /?bu?l(?)/, /?b??l(?)/
Noun
bole (plural boles or bolen)
- bull, steer, male cow
- (heraldry) A heraldic bull
- (astrology) Taurus (zodiac)
- (astronomy) Taurus (constellation)
Related terms
- bullok
Descendants
- English: bull
- Scots: bul, bull
References
- “b?le, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.
Etymology 2
From Old Norse bolr.
Alternative forms
- boole, bol
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?b??l/
Noun
bole (plural boles)
- trunk, bole
- tree
Descendants
- English: bole
References
- “b?le, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.
Serbo-Croatian
Participle
bole (Cyrillic spelling ????)
- feminine plural active past participle of bosti
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twissel
English
Alternative forms
- twistle, twissell
Etymology
From Middle English twisel, twisil, from Old English twisel (“forked, double”), from Old English twisla (“confluence, junction”), from Proto-Germanic *twisil? (“fork, bifurcation”), from Proto-Indo-European *dwis- (“twice, in two”). Cognate with German Zwiesel (“fork”).
Adjective
twissel (comparative more twissel, superlative most twissel)
- (obsolete) Double; twofold.
Synonyms
- duplicate, twosome; see also Thesaurus:twofold
Noun
twissel (plural twissels)
- (rare) A double fruit or a pair of like things growing on a tree.
- 16thC, George Turberville, The Louer, in 1810, Samuel Johnson (series editor & biographies), Alexander Chalmers (additional biographies), The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume II, page 599,
- As from a tree we sundrie times espie / A twissell grow by Nature's subtile might / And beeing two, for cause they grow so nie / For one are tane, and so appeare in sight;
- 16thC, George Turberville, The Louer, in 1810, Samuel Johnson (series editor & biographies), Alexander Chalmers (additional biographies), The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume II, page 599,
- (rare) That part of a tree where the branches separate from the trunk or bole; a fork.
Anagrams
- Wiltses, witless
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