boule
/buːl/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 2.12 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
noun
A through-sawn log with the slices restacked in the order and orientation they originally had in the log, usually with waney edges.
noun
A council of citizens in Ancient Greece
Example Sentences
- "Wani had been wet about the game until he turned out to be good at it, and now he was absorbed and unironical, tripping after the ball, yapping and grinning when he bombed the other boules away from the jack-ball, or cochonnet."
- "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."
- "Specialty lumber dealers can cut and sticker a log "in the boule," so that boards hold the same relative position they had before milling"
- "A live-sawn log kept as a unit is known as a boule"
- "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"
Etymology
From French boule. Doublet of bull (etymologies 2 and 4) and bulla, or of bowl and pulla, depending on the etymology of the French word.
Origin
- Source language: French
Word Breakdown
- Root: *bʰel-, boule