boll

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It is the same insect which is known as the boll worm of the cotton in the Southern States.

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  1. noun The seed-bearing capsule of certain plants, especially cotton and flax.

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  1. Middle English, from Middle Dutch bolle, round object; see bhel-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also bol, bole, also bowl (which is now the prevalent spelling in the first sense); from Anglo-Saxon bolla, a bowl, a round vessel (also in comp., heáfodbolla, head-boll, skull, throtbolla, throat-boll), = Middle Dutch bolle, Dutch bol, masculine, = Old High German pollā, Middle High German bolle, feminine, a round vessel, bud, = Icelandic bolli, masculine, = Danish bolle, a bowl, from Teutonic √ *bul, swell, in causal form Gothic (Moesogothic) ufbauljan, puff up, cf. Old High German bolōn, Middle High German boln, roll; not directly, but perhaps remotely, connected with boll, boln, swell: see boll, boln.
  2. from boll, n.
  3. Scots also bow; earlier bole, boule, from Middle English (Scots) bolle, apparently from Icelandic bolli, a bowl, also used for a measure; same word as English boll and bowl.
  4. Early modern English, from Middle English bollen, apparently an assimilated form of the equivalent bolnen, modern English boln: see boln.
 

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