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Use "boles" in a sentence
"The felled giant sugar maple has broken out in boles: baroque, all bulging eyes, beaks, foreheads, claws, diseased and dark as a mahogany Roman choir stall."
"The same is true for the fourth row, which includes twenty-one boles, that is, one less than an even row of the imaginary rectangle."
"It gets tricky getting multiple “good” cores from trees with irregularly shaped boles, which is usually the case for very old trees."