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- noun Plural form of
bolling .
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Examples
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Such massive mushroom bollings are called desmocho by the Basques in the beech and oak woods of the western Pyrenees around San Sebastin.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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The bollings of pollards in England were generally the property of the landlord, but the tenant farmer was entitled to harvest the pollard wood.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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Such massive mushroom bollings are called desmocho by the Basques in the beech and oak woods of the western Pyrenees around San Sebastin.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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The bollings of pollards in England were generally the property of the landlord, but the tenant farmer was entitled to harvest the pollard wood.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
vendingmachine commented on the word bollings
Such massive mushroom bollings are called desmocho by the Basques in the beech and oak woods of the western Pyrenees around San Sebastin.
Is this word in Basque desmocho really about big mushroom caps being cut off? Is cap even the English word for the top of a mushroom? I'm starting to doubt myself now.
February 25, 2023
vendingmachine commented on the word bollings
When I looked up desmocho, I found this:
But already, as pollarding goes out of fashion, desmocho has been lost from the language and all pollards are called trasmocho.
Pollarding is going out of fashion? Who knew? And what's this business about trasmocho?
February 25, 2023
vendingmachine commented on the word bollings
I am now a keen practitioner of Erin McKean's "Things I learned while looking up other things"...
February 25, 2023