boll

See also: Boll

English

Etymology

From Middle Dutch bolle (“round object”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /bɒl/
• Rhymes: -ɒl
• (US) IPA^(key): boʊl
• Rhymes: -oʊl
• Homophones: bole, bowl

Noun

boll (plural bolls)

1. The rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plant.
   • 1853, Solomon Northup, Twelve Years a Slave

     Sometimes the slave picks down one side of a row, and back upon the other, but more usually, there is one on either side, gathering all that has blossomed leaving the unopened bolls for a succeeding picking.

2. An old Scots dry measure, equal to six bushels.

Translations

the rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plant

• Armenian: բոժոժ (hy) (božož), սերմնատուփ (hy) (sermnatupʿ)
• Italian: capsula (it) f
• Persian: وش‎ (fa) (vaš)

• Polish: torebka (pl) f
• Russian: семенна́я коро́бочка (semennája koróbočka), коро́бочка (ru) (koróbočka)
• Spanish: cápsula (es) f, vaina (es) f

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• French: graine f (du cotonnier)

Derived terms

• boll weevil
• throat-boll

Verb

boll (third-person singular simple present bolls, present participle bolling, simple past and past participle bolled)

1. To form a boll or seed vessel; to go to seed.
   • 1611, Bible (King James Version), Exodus 9:31:

     The barley was in the ear, and the flax was bolled.

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Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse bǫllr (“ball, globe”), from Proto-Germanic *balluz.

Pronunciation

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Noun

boll c

1. a ball; a more or less spherical object which is not hard or unyielding

Declension

Declension of boll
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	boll	bollen	bollar	bollarna
Genitive	bolls	bollens	bollars	bollarnas

Related terms

bandyboll bolla bollbegåvning bollbehandling bollek bollformig bollgeni bollhav bollhållare bollkalle

bollklubb bollkontakt bollkontroll bollkänsla bollning bollplan bollplank bollpojke bollsinne bollspel

bollsport bollsäker bollteknik bollträ chokladboll fotboll gummiboll handboll kokosboll korgboll

pingisboll plastboll tennisboll volleyboll

See also

• klot
• kula
• sfär

References

• boll in Svenska Akademiens Ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)