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单词 boul
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boulbooln.

Forms: Also 1500s boule, Scottish bowle, bulis (plural 1700s–1800s bool.
Etymology: perhaps < Middle Dutch boghel or Middle Low German bogel (modern Dutch beugel , German bügel ) bow, hoop, ring, < stem of Germanic *beugan to bend, bow v.1
Obsolete exc. Scottish and northern dialect (bul).
1. Anything bent into a curve; a curvature. Scottish.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > [noun] > a curve > curved thing
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bent1521
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a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) iii. viii. 55 A port thar is..In maner of a bow, maid bowle [v.r. boule] or bay.
1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. (at cited word) ‘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. Scottish and English regional (northern).
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society > occupation and work > equipment > tool > parts of tools generally > [noun] > handle > round
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bulle1483
boul1560
bow1611
loop1691
button1780
cob-handle1873
swing-handle1891
flush ring1961
1560 Aberdeen Reg. V. 24 (Jam.) Ane pair of pot bulis.
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Si/1 Ye Boule of a potte, ansa, capulum.
1816 W. Scott Antiquary III. Gloss. 359 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.
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3. A child's hoop for bowling. dialect. (North-east England.)
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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