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boule
/buːl/
noun 7verb 1
Collocations
3VERB + BOULE
log
BOULE + NOUN
', wood
PREP.
in
Definitions
noun
1
One of the bowls used in the French game of boules.
Wani had been wet about the game until he turned out to be good at it, and now he was absorbed and unironical, tripping after the ball, yapping and grinning when he bombed the other boules away from the jack-ball, or cochonnet.
2
A single-crystal ingot produced by synthetic means.
3
A round loaf of bread.
4
A round piece of dough.
5
A through-sawn log with the slices restacked in the order and orientation they originally had in the log, usually with waney edges.
Behind him is lumber 'sawn in the boule.' Wood is more commonly sawn in this manner in Europe and is stacked in the order it comes from the log.
Specialty lumber dealers can cut and sticker a log "in the boule," so that boards hold the same relative position they had before milling
verb
1
To shape (a piece of dough) into a ball.
noun
1
Alternative form of buhl.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
noun — an inlaid furniture decoration
- boulle
- buhl
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Idioms & Phrases
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Wani had been wet about the game until he turned out to be good at it, and now he was absorbed and unironical, tripping after the ball, yapping and grinning when he bombed the other boules away from t
Wiktionary02
Behind him is lumber 'sawn in the boule.' Wood is more commonly sawn in this manner in Europe and is stacked in the order it comes from the log.
Wiktionary03
Specialty lumber dealers can cut and sticker a log "in the boule," so that boards hold the same relative position they had before milling
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