Emily Dickinson Lexicon

BOLL, v.i.

To form into a pericarp or seed-vessel. The barley was in the ear and the flax was bolled. – Ex. ix. Heb. גבעל, Gr. σπερματιζον, as translated by the Seventy. Bollard-timbers, in a ship, or knight-heads, are two timbers, rising just within the stem, one on each side of the bowsprit, to secure its end. – Mar. Dict. In docks, bollards are large posts set in the ground on each side, to which are lashed large blocks, through which are reeved the transporting hawsers for docking and undocking ships. – Encyc.