n. [ OE. bolle boll, bowl, AS. bolla. See Bowl a vessel. ] 1. The pod or capsule of a plant, as of flax or cotton; a pericarp of a globular form. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. 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. [ Sometimes spelled bole. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Bolled ] To form a boll or seed vessel; to go to seed. [ 1913 Webster ]

The barley was in the ear, and the flax was bolled. Ex. ix. 31. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. The Jesuit editors of the “Acta Sanctorum”, or Lives of the Saints; -- named from John Bolland, who began the work. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Bole the stem of a tree, and Pollard. ] An upright wooden or iron post in a boat or on a dock, used in veering or fastening ropes. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bollard timber (Naut.), a timber, also called a knighthead, rising just within the stem in a ship, on either side of the bowsprit, to secure its end. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. See Boln, a. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Swollen; puffed out. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thin, and boln out like a sail. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Bole stem of a tree, and Poll, v. t. ] A tree from which the branches have been cut; a pollard. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. one of the two male reproductive glands; a testis; -- usually spelled ballock, and usually used in the plural.
Syn. -- gonad, testicle, ball, nut, egg. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

2. a pulley-block at the head of a topmast.
Syn. -- bullock block. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. to make a mess of.
Syn. -- botch, fumble, botch up, muff, blow it, flub, screw up, ball up, blunder, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix up, bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Zool.) The larva of a moth (Heliothis armigera) which devours the bolls or unripe pods of the cotton plant, often doing great damage to the crops. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Throat + boll a ball. ] The Adam's apple in the neck. [ Obs. or R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

By the throatboll he caught Aleyn. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]