BOLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Bole mean? 

• BOLE (noun)
  The noun BOLE has 3 senses:

1. a soft oily clay used as a pigment (especially a reddish brown pigment)

2. the main stem of a tree; usually covered with bark; the bole is usually the part that is commercially useful for lumber

3. a Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria and closely related to Hausa

  Familiarity information: BOLE used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A soft oily clay used as a pigment (especially a reddish brown pigment)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("bole" is a kind of...):

dirt; soil (the part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock)

pigment (dry coloring material (especially a powder to be mixed with a liquid to produce paint, etc.))

Sense 2

Meaning:

The main stem of a tree; usually covered with bark; the bole is usually the part that is commercially useful for lumber

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

bole; tree trunk; trunk

Hypernyms ("bole" is a kind of...):

stalk; stem (a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ)

Meronyms (parts of "bole"):

bark (tough protective covering of the woody stems and roots of trees and other woody plants)

Holonyms ("bole" is a part of...):

tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria and closely related to Hausa

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Bolanci; Bole

Hypernyms ("Bole" is a kind of...):

West Chadic (a group of Chadic languages spoken in northern Nigeria; Hausa in the most important member)

 Context examples 

Surely, if its bole exceeded that of all others, its height must do the same.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A rude noise broke on these fine ripplings and whisperings, at once so far away and so clear: a positive tramp, tramp, a metallic clatter, which effaced the soft wave-wanderings; as, in a picture, the solid mass of a crag, or the rough boles of a great oak, drawn in dark and strong on the foreground, efface the aerial distance of azure hill, sunny horizon, and blended clouds where tint melts into tint.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The height of the trees and the thickness of the boles exceeded anything which I in my town-bred life could have imagined, shooting upwards in magnificent columns until, at an enormous distance above our heads, we could dimly discern the spot where they threw out their side-branches into Gothic upward curves which coalesced to form one great matted roof of verdure, through which only an occasional golden ray of sunshine shot downwards to trace a thin dazzling line of light amidst the majestic obscurity.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)