Bolled

Swollen, podded, in pod. Exo 9:31.

BOLLED.—The boll of a plant is its seed-vessel or pod. Cf. Fitzherbert, ‘The bolles of flaxe … made drye with the son to get out the sedes.’ Thus Exo 9:31 ‘the flax was bolled,’ means it had reached the seed stage. But the Heb. means only that it was in flower.

bōld (גּבעול, gı̄bh‛ōl, “the calyx of flowers”): Hence, “in bloom,” and so rendered, in the Revised Version (British and American), of flowering flax (Exo 9:31).