boll
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1. boll - Noun
2. boll - Verb
3. Boll - Proper noun
Meaning
The pod or capsule of a plant, as of flax or cotton; a pericarp of a globular form.
A Scotch measure, formerly in use: for wheat and beans it contained four Winchester bushels; for oats, barley, and potatoes, six bushels. A boll of meal is 140 lbs. avoirdupois. Also, a measure for salt of two bushels.
To form a boll or seed vessel; to go to seed.
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A comedy-action flick directed by Uwe Boll, who has directed a number of failed video game themed films, is an adaptation of a shooter game from the late 1990s.
An occurrence of in the Mandelbrot set fractal was discovered by David Boll in 1991. citation He examined the behavior of the Mandelbrot set near the "neck" at (−0.75, 0).
Due to the US Department of Agriculture 's highly successful Boll Weevil Eradication Program (BWEP), this pest has been eliminated from cotton in most of the United States.
German professional table tennis player Timo Boll carried the flag for his country after being chosen with more than 300,000 votes.
But these solutions are capital intensive," warned Ikenna Ofoegbu of the German Heinrich Boll Foundation.
The Lomaxes also elicited from the singer traditional songs (such as "The Boll Weevil" and "John Henry" ) and spirituals (such as " Amazing Grace "), which were not part of his usual commercial repertoire.