BOLL
WordNet
noun
(1) German novelist and writer of short stories (1917-1985)
(2) The rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plant
WiktionaryText
Quotations
- 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.
Noun
boll
- ball; a more or less spherical object which is not hard or unyielding
See also
- klot
- In mathematics: a solid ball
- In sports: a large, heavy ball. E.g. the ball used in bowling.
- kula
- A small, solid ball.
- A projectile, not necessarily spherical.
- sfär
- In mathematics and geometry: the surface of a ball