bole

noun6

1. •
   The trunk or stem of a tree.

   • Enormous elm-tree boles did stoop and lean / Upon the dusky brushwood underneath / Their broad curved branches, fledged with clearest green, / New from its silken sheath. — 1842
2. •
   Any of several varieties of friable earthy clay, usually coloured red by iron oxide, and composed essentially of hydrous silicates of alumina, or more rarely of magnesia.

   • Good Iznik has strong colours well-contained within their outlines and a very clean, clear white. The red colour, made with Armenian bole (an earthy clay) should be thick and proud of the surface. — 2018
3. •
   The shade of reddish brown which resembles this clay.
4. •
   (Scotland) An aperture with a shutter in the wall of a house, to admit air or light.

   • "Open the bole," said the old woman firmly and hastily to her daughter-in-law, “open the bole wi' speed, that I may see if this be the right Lord Geraldin[…]. — 1816
5. •
   (Scotland) A small closet.
6. •
   (no longer used) A bolus; a dose.

   • […]or else[…]the churches were very incurious to swallow such a bole, if no pretension could have been reasonably made for their justification. — 1649