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say it: bohl
bole is a noun meaning "a soft oily clay used as a pigment (especially a reddish brown pigment)". It is pronounced /ˈboʊl/ — bohl. It carries 3 recorded senses.
the main stem of a tree; usually covered with bark; the bole is usually the part that is commercially useful for lumber
a Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria and closely related to Hausa
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for bole come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.