bouleverser (bool-vèr-) v.a., to overthrow; to throw down, to subvert; to agitate, to trouble, to throw into commotion; to upset; to unsettle, to unhinge, to convulse. Cela m’a tout bouleversé; it has quite unhinged me.
☉à la boule vue, adv. V. boule.
boulier, n.m., bag-net (fishing).
boulimie, n.f., (med.) bulimy.
boulimique, adj., bulimic.
boulin, n.m., pigeon-hole; (mas.) pigeon-cove; putlog. Trous de —; scaffolding-holes.
bouline, n.f., (nav.) bowline, gantlet. Aller à la —; to sail close to the wind; to tack about. Courir la —; to run the gantlet.
bouliner, v.n., to sail close to the wind.
bouliner, v.a., to haul to windward. — une voile; to haul a sail to windward.
boulingrin, n.m., bowling-green, grass-plot.