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▪ I. boul, bool Obs. exc. Sc. and north. dial. (bul).
Also 6 boule, Sc. bowle, bulis (pl.), 8–9 bool.
[perh. a. MDu. boghel or MLG. bogel (mod.Du. beugel, Ger. bügel) bow, hoop, ring, f. stem of OTeut. *beugan to bend, bow.]
1. Anything bent into a curve; a curvature. Sc.
1513Douglas æneis iii. viii. 55 A port thair is..In maner of a bow maid bowle [v.r. boule] or bay. 1808Jamieson s.v., ‘The bool of the arm’, when it is bent, i.e. the curvature.
2. esp. The curved or semicircular handle of a pail, tea-kettle, pint-stoup, etc.; the annular part of a key; the holes in scissors for the thumb and finger. bouls, bools, a movable handle of two parts for a pot, called also clips. Sc. and north. Eng.
1560Aberdeen Reg. V. 24 (Jam.) Ane pair of pot bulis. 1570Levins Manip. 218 Y⊇ Boule of a potte, ansa, capulum. 1816Scott Antiq. III. 359 Gloss., ‘To come to the hand like the boul o' a pint-stoup’..as easily and agreeably as the handle of a drinking vessel comes to the hand of a tippler.
3. A child's hoop for bowling. dial. (N.E. England.)
▪ II. boul
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