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Meanings of bole in English
The main stem of a tree; usually covered with bark; the bole is usually the part that is commercially useful for lumber.
Fine clay of various colors, used as pigment and in the ground for gold leaf.
Russian
боле Usage of bole in English
1
Frantically the lion sought to scramble up the bole of the tree.
2
I remember setting my shoulder-blades firmly against the bole of the tree.
3
The girl was leaning against the storm-ripped bole of a fallen tree.
4
The cedar frequently showed a solid white bole, three feet in diameter.
5
One of the bole-like knots in the warrior's hide is growing larger.
6
Its bark was smooth and trim, its bole well set and solid.
7
He walked up alongside the bole of it to the first limb.
8
The dawn found them still sitting there against the bole of the beech-tree.
9
And here was the famous walnut tree-orat least the stumpy bole thereof.
10
And on a bole of the tree there was a bason of copper.
11
Tibo had seen a squirrel scampering up the bole of a great tree.
12
The current swayed him out, but he plunged forward, catching at the bole.
13
They reached the tree, and Juanna sank down half fainting against its bole.
14
There was a broad spiral staircase leading up through the bole.
15
Lotji stepped forth from the cover of the wide bole of a pine.
16
He grasped the bole of a tree and leaned against it, panting hoarsely.
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