Found 2 items, similar to Bole.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: bole 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 [syn: trunk, tree trunk] 3: a Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria and closely related to Hausa [syn: Bolanci]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Bole Bole \Bole\, n. [OE. bole, fr. Icel. bolr; akin to Sw. b[*a]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. [1913 Webster] Enormous elm-tree boles did stoop and lean. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster] 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.] [1913 Webster] Open the bole wi'speed, that I may see if this be the right Lord Geraldin. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster] Bole \Bole\, n. A measure. See Boll, n., 2. --Mortimer. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 2. A bolus; a dose. --Coleridge. [1913 Webster] Armenian bole. See under Armenian. Bole Armoniac, or Armoniak, Armenian bole. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]