boule vs corn

boule

verb
  • To shape (a piece of dough) into a ball. 

noun
  • A single-crystal ingot produced by synthetic means. 

  • A round loaf of bread. 

  • A round piece of dough. 

  • A through-sawn log with the slices restacked in the order and orientation they originally had in the log, usually with waney edges. 

  • A council of citizens in Ancient Greece 

  • One of the bowls used in the French game of boules. 

corn

verb
  • to granulate; to form a substance into grains 

  • to preserve using coarse salt, e.g. corned beef 

  • to render intoxicated 

  • to provide with corn (typically maize; or, in Scotland, oats) for feed 

  • to shoot up with bullets as by a shotgun (corn). 

noun
  • (countable) inflammatory disease of horse hoof, at the caudal part of the sole. 

  • A type of granular snow formed by repeated melting and refreezing, often in mountain spring conditions. 

  • (countable) skin hyperplasia with underlying fibroma between both digits of cattle. 

  • money. 

  • A type of callus, usually on the feet or hands. 

  • Any cereal plant (or its grain) that is the main crop or staple of a country or region. 

  • A grain or seed, especially of a cereal crop. 

  • bullets, ammunition, charge and discharge of firearms 

  • Maize, a grain crop of the species Zea mays. 

  • Something (e.g. acting, humour, music, or writing) which is deemed old-fashioned or intended to induce emotion. 

  • A small, hard particle. 

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