Definition of "boles" [boles]

• Plural form of bole. (noun)

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• "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."