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1. A soft oily clay used as a pigment (especially a reddish brown pigment)
    
2. The main stem of a tree; usually covered with bark; the bole is usually the part that is commercially useful for lumber
   - trunk, tree trunk

1. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria and closely related to Hausa, with dialects including Bara and Fika
   - Bolanci, Bole language, Bolanci language

Sounds like: bowl, boll

Derived forms: Boles, boles

Type of: dirt, pigment, soil, stalk, stem, West Chadic

Part of: tree

Encyclopedia: Bole, Nottinghamshire