bales

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It’s full of walls of bee boles, cobbles, and potting sheds: a beautiful monument to hard work, anonymous labor, and shattered innocence.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 2, 2019

In medieval and pre-modern Europe hives were often kept in boles, or wall recesses that housed wicker and mud skeps that served as the hive.

From The Guardian • May 24, 2017

Tentacles of giant bull kelp were strewed everywhere like the bodies of monsters from the deep, the high-tide line marked by lengths of driftwood a hundred feet long with boles thicker than I am tall.

From New York Times • Jul. 13, 2012

And the tremendous ribbed trunks of the cottonwoods that ringed it were like the boles of old English willows.

From New York Times • Apr. 6, 2012

The boles of the trees glowed with a soft green like young grass: early spring or a fleeting vision of it was about them.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien