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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 177 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BOLL  , a botanical

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term for a
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fruit-pod, particularly of the
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cotton plant . The word is in O . Eng. bolla, which is also represented in " bowl," a
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round
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vessel for liquids, a variant due to " bowl,"
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ball, which is from the Fr.
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boule . " Boll " is also used, chiefly in
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Scotland and the
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north of
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England, as a measure of
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weight for
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flour =140 lb, and of capacity for
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grain: 16 pecks =1 boll .

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