Definitions for bolls

bolls boll

Spelling: [bohl]
IPA: /boʊl/

Bolls is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 34 anagrams from letters in bolls (bllos).

Definitions for bolls

noun

  1. a rounded seed vessel or pod of a plant, as of flax or cotton.
  2. Heinrich (Theodor) [hahyn-rikh tey-aw-dohr] /ˈhaɪn rɪx ˈteɪ ɔˌdoʊr/ (Show IPA), 1917–85, German novelist and short-story writer: Nobel Prize 1972.

Origin of bolls

1400-50; late Middle English bolle, perhaps Middle Dutch bolle (Dutch bol), though formally identical with bowl1

Examples for bolls

Gathering the crop before the boll is properly ripened and matured.

On which he ordered her one boll of meal of her own to be given her.

By that time they have increased so rapidly that there is often one for every boll in the field.

He that eats a boll o' meal in bannocks eats a peck o' dirt.

To explain this, we must start in by a sort of detour, with the boll Weevil.

Of late years the greatest pest has been the Mexican boll weevil.

A boll of malt was weekly brewed into ale, which was used by the household at discretion.

On the third day they fade completely, and the development of the boll begins.

The occasion of the meetings was the approach of the boll weevil to their districts.

And cotton crops would often fail when pests like the boll weevil tore through the fields.

Word Value for bolls
Scrable

6

Words with friends

9

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