bole
Plural
boles
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the cylindrical lower portion of a tree located above the roots and below the branches
- The old oak tree had an enormous bole nearly 6 feet in diameter at its base.
- Woodpeckers left telltale drill marks all over the barky surface of the decaying bole.
- It took four burly men to wrap their arms around the gnarled bole of the ancient fig tree.
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a Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria and closely related to Hausa
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a soft oily clay used as a pigment (especially a reddish brown pigment)