Boll

Definition of Boll

n.1.The pod or capsule of a plant, as of flax or cotton; a pericarp of a globular form.
2.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.
v. i.1.To form a boll or seed vessel; to go to seed.
[imp. & p. p. Bolled ( ).]
The barley was in the ear, and the flax was bolled.
- Ex. ix. 31.

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ball, balloon, bladder, blob, bolus, bubble, bulb, bulbil, bulblet, burr, capsule, cod, ellipsoid, follicle, geoid, globe, globelet, globoid, globule, glomerulus, gob, gobbet, hull, husk, knob, knot, legume, legumen, oblate spheroid, orb, orbit, orblet, pease cod, pellet, pericarp, pod, prolate spheroid, rondure, seed pod, seed vessel, seedbox, seedcase, silique, sphere, spheroid, spherule
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