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.]
BOLL
Boll, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Bolled.]
Defn: 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.
BOLLANDISTS
Bol"land*ists, n. pl.
Defn: The Jesuit editors of the "Acta Sanctorum", or Lives of the
Saints; — named from John Bolland, who began the work.
BOLLARD
Bol"lard, n. Etym: [Cf. Bole the stem of a tree, and Pollard.]
Defn: An upright wooden or iron post in a boat or on a dock, used in veering or fastening ropes. Bollard timber (Naut.), a timber, also called a knighthead, rising just within the stem in a ship, on either side of the bowsprit, to secure its end.
BOLLEN
Boll"en, a.
Defn: See Boln, a.
BOLLING
Boll"ing, n. Etym: [Cf. Bole stem of a tree, and Poll, v. t.]