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Webster 1913 Edition
Boll
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.
[Sometimes spelled
bole
.] Boll
,Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Bolled
.] To form a boll or seed vessel; to go to seed.
The barley was in the ear, and the flax was
bolled
. Ex. ix. 31.
Webster 1828 Edition
Boll
BOLL
,Noun.
BOLL
,Verb.
I.
The barley was in the ear and the flax was bolled. Exodus 9.
Heb.,Gr., as translated by the seventy.
Bollard timbers, in a ship, or knight-heads, are two timbers, rising just within the stem, one on each side of the bowsprit, to secure its end.
In docks, bollards are large posts set in the ground on each side, to which are lashed large blocks, through which are reeved the transporting hawsers for docking and undocking ships.