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boll the fruit of such plants as flax and cotton, consisting of a rounded capsule containing the seeds boll [bōl] (botany) A pod or capsule (pericarp), as of cotton and flax. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Though they might have two or three brass kettles hanging, in their lodges, yet they would frequently use vessels made of willow, for carrying water, and would even boll their meat in them, by means of hot stones. Each student carried a stalk of sugar-cane with some open bolls of cotton fastened to the end of it. |
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