bole — English Dictionary

Noun

1. The trunk or stem of a tree.

   Examples

   More examples (2)

   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.

   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.

Noun

1. 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.

   Usage

   • Countable
   • Uncountable

   Examples

   More examples (1)

   Good Iznik has strong colours well-contained within their outlines and a very clean, clear white. The red colour, made with Armenian bole (an earthy clay) should be thick and proud of the surface.

2. The shade of reddish brown which resembles this clay.

   Usage

   • Countable
   • Uncountable

3. A bolus; a dose.

   Usage

   • Countable
   • Obsolete
   • Uncountable

   Examples

   […]or else[…]the churches were very incurious to swallow such a bole, if no pretension could have been reasonably made for their justification.

Noun

1. An aperture with a shutter in the wall of a house, to admit air or light.

   Usage

   • Scotland

   Examples

   "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[…].

2. A small closet.

   Usage

   • Scotland

Noun

1. a soft oily clay used as a pigment (especially a reddish brown pigment)

   Broader terms

   pigmentsoildirt

2. the main stem of a tree; usually covered with bark; the bole is usually the part that is commercially useful for lumber

   Synonyms

   trunktree trunk

   Broader terms

   stalkstem