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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Boul(l, Bowl(e, v. [f. Boull n.2] tr. To furnish with a hoop or handle. —1632 Edinb. Test. LV. 258 b.
Ane kettill of gray wark ringed and bould with irone 1639 Peebles B. Rec. 420.
To John Bell, smyth, ane quarter weight of yron to bowle the twa yron peeces in the steepell and for his bowlling thairof 1653 Soc. Ant. XXIII. 302.
In the kitching … one great irone ketle boull'd
