dictionary help1. The pod or capsule of a plant, as of flax or cotton; a pericarp of a globular form.
2. A Scotch measure, formerly in use: for wheat and beans it contained four Winchester bushels; for oats, barley, and potatoes, six bushels. A boll of meal is 140 lbs. Avoirdupois. Also, a measure for salt of two bushels. [Sometimes spelled bole.
Origin: OE. Bolle boll, bowl, AS. Bolla. See Bowl a vessel.
To form a boll or seed vessel; to go to seed. "The barley was in the ear, and the flax was bolled." (Ex. Ix. 31)
Origin: Bolled.
(01 Mar 1998)
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