See boll in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "1742, Virgil, “Appendix to the Georgicks”, in James Hamilton, transl., Virgil’s Pastorals Translated into English Prose; as also His Georgicks, […], Edinburgh: Printed by W. Cheyne, […]; [s]old by J. Traill and G. Crawford, […]; and by J. Barry […], →OCLC, page 43:",
"text": "I ſowed on this Ground, without any Dung or Manure, a Lippy of Oats, from which I had a Boll wanting a Chopin.",
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"ref": "1792, Robert Bowmaker, “Number LI. Parish of Dunse, (County of Berwick.)”, in John Sinclair, editor, The Statistical Account of Scotland. Drawn Up from the Communications of the Ministers of the Different Parishes, volume IV, Edinburgh: Printed and sold by William Creech [et al.], →OCLC, page 386:",
"text": "The farmers ſervants who have families, and engage by the year, are called hinds, and receive 10 bolls oats, 2 bolls barley, and 1 boll peas, which two laſt articles are called hummel corn, […]",
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{
"ref": "1944 September and October, Charles E. Lee, “An Ancient Underground Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 274, text from early 19th century:",
"text": "The waggons are deep and square; wider at the top than at the bottom, and are fast at all sides. The bottom has hinges, and can be let down to discharge the coals, of which these waggons contain about three bolls each.",
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"An old dry measure equal to six bushels."
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],
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"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "božož",
"sense": "the rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plant",
"word": "բոժոժ"
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"sense": "the rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plant",
"word": "սերմնատուփ"
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"sense": "the rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plant",
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"code": "haw",
"lang": "Hawaiian",
"sense": "the rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plant",
"word": "pulu"
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"code": "it",
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"sense": "the rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plant",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
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"sense": "the rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plant",
"word": "وش"
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"code": "fa",
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"roman": "konuze",
"sense": "the rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plant",
"word": "کنوزه"
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"sense": "the rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plant",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "torebka"
},
{
"code": "pa",
"lang": "Punjabi",
"roman": "ṭīṇḍā",
"sense": "the rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plant",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ਟੀਂਡਾ"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "semennája koróbočka",
"sense": "the rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plant",
"word": "семенна́я коро́бочка"
},
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"sense": "the rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plant",
"word": "коро́бочка"
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{
"code": "es",
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"sense": "the rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plant",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "cápsula"
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"sense": "the rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plant",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "An excrescence or protuberance growing the trunks of some trees",
"word": "pukuwhenewhene"
}
],
"word": "boll"
}
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"ref": "1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Exodus 9:31:",
"text": "The barley was in the ear, and the flax was bolled.",
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"To form a boll or seed vessel; to go to seed."
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