boule

French boule

Boule bread

boule (plural boules)

1. One of the bowls used in the French game of boules.
2. A single-crystal ingot produced by synthetic means.
3. A round loaf of bread.
4. A round piece of dough.
5. (woodworking) A through-sawn log with the slices restacked in the order and orientation they originally had in the log, usually with waney edges.
   • 1986, Fine woodworking on wood and how to dry it, page 42:

     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.

   • 2019 August 2, American Woodworker, number 46, page 41:

     Specialty lumber dealers can cut and sticker a log "in the boule," so that boards hold the same relative position they had before milling

   • 1991 August, American Woodworker, number 21, page 47:

     A live-sawn log kept as a unit is known as a boule

   • 2005, Andy Rae, Workshop Idea Book, page 94:

     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

boule (third-person singular simple present boules, present participle bouling, simple past and past participle bouled)

1. (transitive, cooking, rare, nonstandard) To shape (a piece of dough) into a ball.

Alteration of Boulle. See buhl.

boule (usually uncountable, plural boules)

1. (woodworking) Alternative form of buhl

Borrowed from Ancient Greek βουλή (boulḗ).

boule (plural boules)

1. A council of citizens in Ancient Greece

• Lobue

• IPA^(key): [ˈbou̯lɛ]
• Rhymes: -oulɛ

boule f

1. bulge, protuberance
2. bump, swelling

• boule in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• boule in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

From Middle French boule, from Old French bole (“knob”), from either Latin bulla (“bubble”), in which case it is a doublet of bulle (which was borrowed later), or from Old Frankish *bolla, *bollo (“ball, bun, bowl, cup”), from Proto-Germanic *bullǭ (“round object, ball, bowl”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰl̥n- (“round object”), from *bʰel- (“to blow, swell, inflate”). Cognate with Dutch bol (“ball, sphere, scoop”), German Bolle (“bulb”). More at bowl.

• IPA^(key): /bul/

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boule f (plural boules)

1. ball, globe
2. bowl (in the game of bowls)

   Il jette la boule. ― He throws the bowl.

3. scoop (of e.g. ice cream)

   2 boules de glace. ― 2 scoops of ice cream.

4. (informal) head or face
5. (France, slang) ball, testicle
6. (Quebec, slang) tit, breast

boule m (plural boules)

1. (slang) butt, bum, ass

   Cette meuf a un bon boule.

   This girl has a great ass.

boule

1. first-person singular present indicative of bouler
2. third-person singular present indicative of bouler
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of bouler
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of bouler
5. second-person singular imperative of bouler

• “boule” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

From French brûler (“to burn”)

boule

1. to burn

• n'ap boule

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boule f (plural boules)

1. (Jersey, nautical) buoy

• boule d'sauvetage (“life belt”)