Obs. exc. dial. [f. BOLL v.3 or sb.1 3 + -ED. Cf. seeded, podded.] Having bolls; esp. having seed vessels, in pod, in seed.
1535. Coverdale, Ex. ix. 31. Ye flax was boulled. [1611 The flaxe was bolled; 1382 Wyclif, The flax now buriownde coddes; 1388 The flax hadde buriounned thanne knoppis].
1639. Horn & Robotham, Gate Lang. Unl., xii. § 131. Garlick, onions, leekes are bolled [round-headed].