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1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

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a botanical term for a fruit-pod, particularly of the cotton plant. The word is in O. Eng. bolla, which is also represented in "bowl," a round vessel for liquids, a variant due to "bowl," ball, which is from the Fr. boule. " Boll" is also used, chiefly in Scotland and the north of England, as a measure of weight for flour= loo lb, and of capacity for grain: 16 pecks = r boll.

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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Boll'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​b/boll.html. 1910.
 
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