bole
bohl
- n a soft oily clay used as a pigment (especially a reddish brown pigment)
- n the main stem of a tree; usually covered with bark; the bole is usually the part that is commercially useful for lumber
- n a Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria and closely related to Hausa
- The combatants appeared, 17-year-old Texans big around as the bole of a sequoia born when the local mail came by Pony Express.
- This charge is a lightning bolt to the bole of a writer's reason for being -- the task of adding to, as opposed to filching from, the sum total of human wisdom, knowledge or .
- While the moon splashes ghostly shadows through the grove, a funeral procession moves under redwood branches huge as an oaktree's bole, carrying along the effigy of "Dull Care .