Obs. Also 6 bole, bowle. [f. boll, BOWL sb.] To quaff the bowl; to booze.
1535. Coverdale, Mich. ii. 11. They might syt bebbinge and bollynge.
1567. Harman, Caveat, 32. They bowle and bowse one to another.
1577. Kendall, Flowers of Epigr. (N.). Gull, bib, and bole, carouse, and quaffe, eche can in Germany.
1586. J. Hooker, Girald. Irel., II. 95/1. Parese caused such as kept the ward, to swill and boll.
