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bolling

bolling is the present participle and gerund of boll.

Meaning of boll

Verb

boll (third-person singular simple present bolls, present participle bolling, simple past and past participle bolled)

  1. To form a boll or seed vessel; to go to seed.
    • The barley was in the ear, and the flax was bolled.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Exodus 9:31

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Proper noun capitalized: Bolling

Bolling

  1. A surname.

Forms of bolling

alternative formBoling

Origin of bolling

Originally a nickname for someone with a large head with close-cut hair, similar to a bolling/pollard.

Questions about bolling

What does bolling mean?
Bolling means a surname.
What is bolling the present participle and gerund of?
Bolling is the present participle and gerund of boll.
What part of speech is bolling?
Bolling is a proper noun.

Words near bolling in the dictionary

  1. Bollig
  2. Bolligs
  3. Bollin
  4. bolline
  5. bollines
  6. bolling
  7. Bollinger
  8. Bollinger County
  9. Bollington
  10. Bollins
  11. bollito misto

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bolling (page history and authors); Bolling (page history and authors); boll (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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