boline

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boline

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Etymology

Originally spelled bolline. From Italian bolino, which is a variant of bulino (“burin”). The bolino was conflated with the cortel bianco ("white knife"). Doublet of burin.

Noun

boline (plural bolines)

A white handled knife used in Wicca, for physical cutting, in contrast to the athame.
- 2012, Juliet Blackwell, In a Witch's Wardrobe: A Witchcraft Mystery, New York, NY: New American Library, →ISBN, page 28:
  Grabbing my wicker basket and boline, the special knife I use for cutting herbs, I passed through the living room and out a pair of French doors onto my terrace garden.

Anagrams

Nobile, ben oil, neolib, obelin

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Noun

boline f

plural of bolina

Anagrams

Blenio, Neboli, Nobile, belino, nobeli, nobile

Etymology

Probably borrowed from Middle English bouline, although the Old French is attested earlier than the Middle English.^[1]

Noun

boline oblique singular, f (oblique plural bolines, nominative singular boline, nominative plural bolines)

(nautical) bowline

References

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Etymology and history of “bouline”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Etymology and history of “bouline”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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