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The trunk or stem of a tree.
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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.
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(colour) The shade of reddish brown which resembles this clay.
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A bolus; a dose.
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An aperture with a shutter in the wall of a house, to admit air or light.
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A small closet.
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The rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plant.
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An old dry measure equal to six bushels.
Examples of boles in a Sentence
A further six tree boles were recorded within Intervention 18.
Without being very plentiful anywhere, it is generally distributed in suitable localities throughout its range - those localities being such as afford it a sufficient supply of food, consisting during the greater part of the year of insects, which it diligently seeks on the boles and larger limbs of old trees; but in autumn and winter it feeds on nuts, beech-mast, the stones of yew-berries and hard seeds.
Bark has almost square plates as in U. procera, but still vertically fissured; large boles are fluted (Mitchell, 1974 ).
Down the faster runs and chutes, artfully wedged pine boles clog the current with trouty habitat.
Upper Basalt Formation Comprise a crudely-bedded succession of lava flows, columnar jointed lava flows, ash-falls and red-weathered horizons (or boles ).
Many of the Dartmoor farms still have old granite bee boles in situ.