boul

See also: bȯu̯l and boul.

English

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /buːl/
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Noun

boul (plural bouls)

A curved handle.
- 1819, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Third Series. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], OCLC 277985465:
  this comes to hand like the boul of a pint stoup

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for boul in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Antillean Creole

Noun

boul

clot; lump; clod

French

Noun

boul m (plural bouls)

Abbreviation of boulevard. Alternative form of boul.

Old French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *betullus, from Latin betulla, diminutive of Gaulish *betua, from Proto-Celtic *betwiyos, *betuyā (“birch”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷet-.

Also compare Catalan bedoll, Portuguese bétula, Italian betulla.

Noun

boul m (oblique plural bous or box or bouls, nominative singular bous or box or bouls, nominative plural boul)

birch (tree)

Descendants

French: bouleau

References

Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (boul)

Romanian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈbo.ul]

Noun

boul m

definite nominative/accusative singular of bou

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