boles

[US]/bəʊl/
[UK]/bol/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. the trunk of a tree

Phrases & Collocations

mahogany bole

Example Sentences

bole of a tree

bole of a ship

bole of a plant

bole of a cannon

bole of a column

bole of a mast

bole of a gun

bole of a church

bole of a statue

Real-world Examples

Every wind is fretted by his voice, almost every bole and branch feels the sting of his sharp feet.

Source: The Mountains of California (Part 2)

Nimbly the lad sprang to its bole, clinging cat-like for an instant before he clambered quietly to the ground below.

Source: Son of Mount Tai (Part 1)

Here the great burly brown bears delight to roam, harmonizing with the brown boles of the trees beneath which they feed.

Source: The Mountains of California (Part 1)

Jaime sat against the bole of an oak and wondered what Cersei and Tyrion were doing just now. " Do you have any siblings, my lady? " he asked.

Source: A Song of Ice and Fire: A Storm of Ice and Rain (Bilingual)

Wherever the young trees are at all sheltered, they grow up straight and arrowy, with delicately tapered bole, and ascending branches terminated with glossy, bottle-brush tassels.

Source: The Mountains of California (Part 1)

He lugged his burden to the higher safety and greater comfort of a broad crotch, and there he propped it in a sitting position against the bole of the tree.

Source: Son of Mount Tai (Part 2)

At the top of this magnificent bole, long, curving branches sweep gracefully outward and downward, sometimes forming a palm-like crown, but far more nobly impressive than any palm crown I ever beheld.

Source: The Mountains of California (Part 1)

She had been listening attentively to Meriem for an hour, propped against the bole of a tree while her lithe, young mistress stretched catlike and luxurious along a swaying branch before her.

Source: Son of Mount Tai (Part 1)

He had spent three days sitting inside the bole of an artificial oak tree, three nights crawling on his belly through the heather, hiding microphones in gorse bushes, burying wires in the soft grey sand.

Source: Brave New World

One reason for the permanence of the blaze was now manifest: the fuel consisted of hard pieces of wood, cleft and sawn—the knotty boles of old thorn trees which grew in twos and threes about the hillsides.

Source: Returning Home

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