Definitions for bole

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Spelling: [bohl]
IPA: /boʊl/

Bole is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 31 anagrams from letters in bole (belo).

Definitions for bole

noun

  1. the stem or trunk of a tree.
  2. any of a variety of soft, unctuous clays of various colors, used as pigments.
  3. a medium red-brown color made from such clay.

Origin of bole

1275-1325; Middle English Old Norse bolr trunk (of a tree), torso; see bulwark

Examples for bole

Steve took to the woods, and found sanctuary behind the bole of an oak.

Like the three wanderers in Arden, against the bole of a huge oak.

The neck in thickness equalled the bole of a moderate-sized tree.

The dawn found them still sitting there against the bole of the beech-tree.

I heard some of them snap, and a crack appeared in the ground not far from the bole.

Go down into your bole,—thy deliverer, thy avenger is above.

Silently he swung from bole to bole for a few minutes, and then disappeared.

No tree has so fair a bole and so handsome an instep as the beech.

He was standing against the bole of a masa'oi tree, leaning on his rifle.

There was no fire at the foot of the tree, for she could see the base of the bole plainly.

Word Value for bole
Scrable

6

Words with friends

8

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