Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as boltel.
  • noun A kind of cloth made for sifting; hence, a sieve.
  • noun The bran or refuse of meal after dressing.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A molding, the convexity of which is one fourth of a circle, being a member just below the abacus in the Tuscan and Roman Doric capital; a torus; an ovolo.
  • noun One of the shafts of a clustered column.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun architecture A moulding with quarter-circle convexity, found just below the abacus in the Tuscan and Roman Doric capital; a torus; an ovolo.
  • noun architecture One of the shafts of a clustered column.

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