The rains flooded fields (as well as a number of basements in Atkinson) and led festival organizers to call off the antique tractor show and rolle bolle competition.— Star Courier Homepage RSS
The word, which is found in M.E. as bole, bolle (cf. Ger. Bulle_, and Dutch bul or bol_), is also used of the males of other animals of large size, e.g. the elephant, whale, &c.; The O.E.— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
Ȝeo bar in hire hond {;} ane goldene bolle.— Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts
A grete bolle-ful of benen · were beter in hys wombe,— Early English Meals and Manners
47: [[Cam. _is_ Bolk not as a bolle yn the crofte]] l.— Early English Meals and Manners
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