boll
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3ADJ.
long
VERB + BOLL
am
BOLL + NOUN
chopin, e, weevil
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noun
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.
The champion picker of the day before was the hero of the dawn. If he prophesied that the cotton in today’s field was going to be sparse and stick to the bolls like glue, every listener would grunt a hearty agreement.
A protuberance or excrescence growing on the trunks of some trees, a burl.
An old dry measure equal to six bushels.
I ſowed on this Ground, without any Dung or Manure, a Lippy of Oats, from which I had a Boll wanting a Chopin.
The farmers ſervants who have families, and engage by the year, are called hinds, and receive 10 bolls oats, 2 bolls barley, and 1 boll peas, which two laſt articles are called hummel corn, […]
verb
To form a boll or seed vessel; to go to seed.
The barley was in the ear, and the flax was bolled.
name
A surname from the Germanic languages.
A surname from the Germanic languages.
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6Sometimes 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
WiktionaryThe champion picker of the day before was the hero of the dawn. If he prophesied that the cotton in today’s field was going to be sparse and stick to the bolls like glue, every listener would grunt a
WiktionaryI ſowed on this Ground, without any Dung or Manure, a Lippy of Oats, from which I had a Boll wanting a Chopin.
WiktionaryThe barley was in the ear, and the flax was bolled.
WiktionaryAmédée Bollée built one of the first steam-powered automobiles in 1873.
Tatoeba · #4947718The boll weevil has long plagued cotton crops.
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