bole

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /bəʊl/|/bɒʊl/    美 /bol/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The trunk or stem of a tree.
    — Enormous elm-tree boles did stoop and lean / Upon the dusky brushwood underneath / Their broad curved branches, fledged with clearest green, / New from its silken sheath.
  2. Any of several varieties of friable earthy clay, usually coloured red by iron oxide, and composed essentially of hydrous silicates of alumina, or more rarely of magnesia. countable,uncountable
    — Good Iznik has strong colours well-contained within their outlines and a very clean, clear white. The red colour, made with Armenian bole (an earthy clay) should be thick and proud of the surface.
  3. Alternative form of boll (old unit of measure). alt-of,alternative
    — Take then good Barley newly thrashed and well purged from the Chaff, and put thereof eight Boles, that is about ſix English Quarters, in a Stone - trough
  4. An aperture with a shutter in the wall of a house, to admit air or light. Scotland
    — "Open the bole," said the old woman firmly and hastily to her daughter-in-law, “open the bole wi' speed, that I may see if this be the right Lord Geraldin[…].
  5. The shade of reddish brown which resembles this clay. countable,uncountable
  6. A small closet. Scotland
  7. A bolus; a dose. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — […]or else[…]the churches were very incurious to swallow such a bole, if no pretension could have been reasonably made for their justification.

词形变化

boles plural boles plural boles plural boles plural

词汇关系

衍生词
Armenian bole bolar

词源

词源 1
From Middle English bole, from Old Norse bolr, akin to Danish bul and German Bohle (“plank”). See also bulwark (“defensive wall”).
词源 2
From Ancient Greek βῶλος (bôlos, “clod or lump of earth”): compare French bol. Doublet of bolus.
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