[a. F. boulet BULLET, dim. of boule ball: cf. BOWL sb.2]
† 1. A small globe, sphere or ball. Obs.
1605. Timme, Quersit., III. 86. Thou shalt put them into a small boulet of oake.
1677. Gale, Crt. Gentiles, II. III. 204. The Agnus Dei … is made like to those bulles or boulets of waxe, which they hang about the neckes of children.
2. techn. A horse whose fetlock or pastern-joint bends forward, and out of its natural position (Webster). [A misuse of the F. word, which means ‘fetlock’; a horse which has its fetlock out of place is said to be bouleté.]
