Obs. [f. bolle, earlier form of BOWL.]
1. One who continues at the bowl; a tippler, a drunkard. Cf. bowl-fellow.
c. 1320. R. Brunne, Medit., 477. Both bollers of wyne and eche a gadlyng.
c. 1340. Alex. & Dind., 675. Baccus þe boller.
1393. Langl., P. Pl., C. X. 194. Bollers atten ale.
1413. Lydg., Pylgr. Sowle, III. ix. (1483), 55. Bollers of wyn and ale.
1542. Udall, Erasm. Apoph., 33 a. A greate boller of wyne.
2. ? A bowl-maker.
1415. York Myst., Introd. 25. Turnours, Hayresters, Bollers.
