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English Dictionary: bole by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bole
n
  1. a soft oily clay used as a pigment (especially a reddish brown pigment)
  2. the main stem of a tree; usually covered with bark; the bole is usually the part that is commercially useful for lumber
    Synonym(s): trunk, tree trunk, bole
  3. a Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria and closely related to Hausa
    Synonym(s): Bole, Bolanci
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bole \Bole\, n. [OE. bole, fr. Icel. bolr; akin to Sw. b[86]l,
      Dan. bul, trunk, stem of a tree, G. bohle a thick plank or
      board; cf. LG. boll round. Cf. {Bulge}.]
      The trunk or stem of a tree, or that which is like it.
  
               Enormous elm-tree boles did stoop and lean. --Tennyson.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bole \Bole\, n. [Etym. doubtful.]
      An aperture, with a wooden shutter, in the wall of a house,
      for giving, occasionally, air or light; also, a small closet.
      [Scot.]
  
               Open the bole wi'speed, that I may see if this be the
               right Lord Geraldin.                              --Sir W.
                                                                              Scott.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bole \Bole\, n.
      A measure. See {Boll}, n., 2. --Mortimer.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bole \Bole\, n. [Gr. [?] a clod or lump of earth: cf. F. bol,
      and also L. bolus morsel. Cf. {Bolus}.]
      1. 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}.
  
      2. A bolus; a dose. --Coleridge.
  
      {Armenian bole}. See under {Armenian}.
  
      {Bole Armoniac}, or {Armoniak}, Armenian bole. [Obs.]
            --Chaucer.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Boll \Boll\, n. [OE. bolle boll, bowl, AS. bolla. See {Bowl} a
      vessel.]
      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}.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Clay \Clay\ (kl[amac]), n. [AS. cl[d6]g; akin to LG. klei, D.
      klei, and perh. to AS. cl[be]m clay, L. glus, gluten glue,
      Gr. gloio`s glutinous substance, E. glue. Cf. {Clog}.]
      1. A soft earth, which is plastic, or may be molded with the
            hands, consisting of hydrous silicate of aluminium. It is
            the result of the wearing down and decomposition, in part,
            of rocks containing aluminous minerals, as granite. Lime,
            magnesia, oxide of iron, and other ingredients, are often
            present as impurities.
  
      2. (Poetry & Script.) Earth in general, as representing the
            elementary particles of the human body; hence, the human
            body as formed from such particles.
  
                     I also am formed out of the clay.      --Job xxxiii.
                                                                              6.
  
                     The earth is covered thick with other clay, Which
                     her own clay shall cover.                  --Byron.
  
      {Bowlder clay}. See under {Bowlder}.
  
      {Brick clay}, the common clay, containing some iron, and
            therefore turning red when burned.
  
      {Clay cold}, cold as clay or earth; lifeless; inanimate.
  
      {Clay ironstone}, an ore of iron consisting of the oxide or
            carbonate of iron mixed with clay or sand.
  
      {Clay marl}, a whitish, smooth, chalky clay.
  
      {Clay mill}, a mill for mixing and tempering clay; a pug
            mill.
  
      {Clay pit}, a pit where clay is dug.
  
      {Clay slate} (Min.), argillaceous schist; argillite.
  
      {Fatty clays}, clays having a greasy feel; they are chemical
            compounds of water, silica, and aluminia, as {halloysite},
            {bole}, etc.
  
      {Fire clay}, a variety of clay, entirely free from lime,
            iron, or an alkali, and therefore infusible, and used for
            fire brick.
  
      {Porcelain clay}, a very pure variety, formed directly from
            the decomposition of feldspar, and often called {kaolin}.
           
  
      {Potter's clay}, a tolerably pure kind, free from iron.
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