From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Boll \Boll\, noun [OE. bolle boll, bowl, AS. bolla. See {Bowl} a vessel.]
1. The pod or capsule of a plant, as of flax or cotton; a pericarp of a globular form.
2. A Scotch measure, formerly in use: for wheat and beans it contained four Winchester bushels; for oats, barley, and potatoes, six bushels. A boll of meal is 140 lbs. avoirdupois. Also, a measure for salt of two bushels. [Sometimes spelled {bole}.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Boll \Boll\, verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Bolled}.] To form a boll or seed vessel; to go to seed.
The barley was in the ear, and the flax was bolled. --Ex. ix. 31.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: the rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plant
2: German novelist and writer of short stories (1917-1985) [syn: {Heinrich Boll}, {Heinrich Theodor Boll}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
46 Moby Thesaurus words for "boll": ball, balloon, bladder, blob, bolus, bubble, bulb, bulbil, bulblet, burr, capsule, cod, ellipsoid, follicle, geoid, globe, globelet, globoid, globule, glomerulus, gob, gobbet, hull, husk, knob, knot, legume, legumen, oblate spheroid, orb, orbit, orblet, pease cod, pellet, pericarp, pod, prolate spheroid, rondure, seed pod, seed vessel, seedbox, seedcase, silique, sphere, spheroid, spherule
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