bole

Example Sentences

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In a pleasant place, open yet sheltered by overhanging boughs, the hollow bole of a dead tree lay on the ground.

From Literature

NW96 is thought to predate 1580 because of a lead ingot cast from a furnace, known as a bole, which fell out of use around that time.

From BBC

With all of us dealing with a pandemic, chasing down the last bole of hand sanitizer and for some reason stocking up on toilet paper, you thought we forgot.

From Washington Times

At ground level, a full-sized tree would be ten feet through its bole, more than twenty feet around.

From Literature

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