Definitions for Boll

Boll boll

Spelling: [bohl]
IPA: /boʊl/

Boll is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 19 anagrams from letters in Boll (bllo).

Definitions for Boll

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 Boll

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

Examples for Boll

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Word Value for Boll
Scrable

6

Words with friends

9

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