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Boll

//boʊl// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from the Germanic languages.; A surname from German.
  2. 2
    A surname from the Germanic languages.; A surname from Danish.
Noun
  1. 1
    The rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plant.

    "Sometimes the slave picks down one side of a row, and back upon the other, but more usually, there is one on either side, gathering all that has blossomed, leaving the unopened bolls for a succeeding picking."

  2. 2
    the rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plant wordnet
  3. 3
    A protuberance or excrescence growing on the trunks of some trees, a burl.
  4. 4
    An old dry measure equal to six bushels. Scotland

    "I ſowed on this Ground, without any Dung or Manure, a Lippy of Oats, from which I had a Boll wanting a Chopin."

Verb
  1. 1
    To form a boll or seed vessel; to go to seed.

    "The barley was in the ear, and the flax was bolled."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English bolle (“pod; shell”) and Middle Dutch bolle (“round object”); both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *bullô (“round object; bowl”). More at bowl.

Etymology 2

From Middle English bolle (“pod; shell”) and Middle Dutch bolle (“round object”); both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *bullô (“round object; bowl”). More at bowl.

Etymology 3

* As a Danish and German surname, from Danish Bøll, German Böll. * Also as a German surname, from the personal name Baldo (see Bold). Compare Boell. * As an English surname, variant of Bull. * Also as an English surname, from the noun bowl. Compare Bowler. * As a Scottish surname, variant of Boyle.

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