boule en · NOUN · etymology 1
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
- /buːl/
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.
Meanings
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One of the bowls used in the French game of boules.
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:
- A single-crystal ingot produced by synthetic means.
- A round loaf of bread.
- A round piece of dough.
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A through-sawn log with the slices restacked in the order and orientation they originally had in the log, usually with waney edges.
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: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:A live-sawn log kept as a unit is known as a boule
1991 August, American Woodworker, number 21, page 47: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:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| boules | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Translations (8)
ca fogassa (A round loaf of bread) · es pan bola (A round loaf of bread) · ca un pa (A round loaf of bread) · es bola (A round loaf of bread) · fa کوماج (A round loaf of bread) · es bola (A round piece of dough) · ca bolla (A round piece of dough) · es bolla (A round loaf of bread)