Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗verb
To form a boll or seed vessel; to go to seed.
noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryThe rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plant. · A protuberance or excrescence growing on the trunks of some trees, a burl. · An old dry measure equal to six bushels.
From Middle English bolle (“pod; shell”) and Middle Dutch bolle (“round object”), from Frankish *bollo, all ultimately from Proto-Germanic *bullô (“round object; bowl”). More at bowl.
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