bole

Plural: boles

Noun

• A fine-grained, earthy clay, often reddish, used as a pigment.
• a soft oily clay used as a pigment (especially a reddish brown pigment)
• the main stem of a tree; usually covered with bark; the bole is usually the part that is commercially useful for lumber
• a Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria and closely related to Hausa
• The trunk or stem of a tree.
• Any of several varieties of friable earthy clay, usually coloured red by iron oxide, and composed essentially of hydrous silicates of alumina, or more rarely of magnesia.
• The shade of reddish brown which resembles this clay.
• A bolus; a dose.
• Alternative form of boll (old unit of measure).
• An aperture with a shutter in the wall of a house, to admit air or light.
• A small closet.

Examples

• The word BOLE, though short, provided a surprising hook for a longer word.

Synonyms

Bolanci, tree trunk, trunk