Noun: boule
| Singular | boule |
| Plural | boules |
Sample Sentences
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Wani had been wet about the game until he turned out to be good at it, and now he was absorbed and unironical, tripping after the ball, yapping and grinning when he bombed the other boules away from the jack-ball, or cochonnet. [2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:]
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Behind him is lumber 'sawn in the boule.' Wood is more commonly sawn in this manner in Europe and is stacked in the order it comes from the log. [1986, Fine woodworking on wood and how to dry it, page 42:]
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Specialty lumber dealers can cut and sticker a log "in the boule," so that boards hold the same relative position they had before milling [1995 August, American Woodworker, number 46, page 41:]
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A live-sawn log kept as a unit is known as a boule [1991 August, American Woodworker, number 21, page 47:]
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IN THE BOULE. If you work with whole logs, allocate enough space for storing flitch-cut planks in the order they were sawn. Their sheer bulk helps keep them flat, and stacking in order makes sequential matching for color and grain much easier [2005, Andy Rae, Workshop Idea Book, page 94:]
Nouns inflected like boule
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From French boule. Doublet of bull (etymologies 2 and 4) and bulla, or of bowl and pulla, depending on the etymology of the French word. See: French Nouns '
boule'.