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boll, bowl, bowl
boll (BOHL) (noun)
A seed pod of cotton or flax: Sometimes the multiple existence of the cotton boll looks like a bunch of snowballs in the fields.
bowl (BOHL) (noun)
1. A building or stadium shaped like a round dish: Erick and Darryl went to the Rose Bowl to see this year's game.
2. A round vessel that is open at the top and which is used for holding fruit or liquids or for serving food: Lucinda put the cereal in the bowl for breakfast.
2. A round vessel that is open at the top and which is used for holding fruit or liquids or for serving food: Lucinda put the cereal in the bowl for breakfast.
"At a bowling alley, two men were looking at a fish about to bowl a ball down the lane and the fish looked at them and said, 'What's the matter? Haven't you ever seen a fish bowl before?' "
bowl (BOHL) (verb)
To move, to roll smoothly and quickly, or to make something do this: Trina could see Jim bowl down the highway with his new car.
Milton went to the Cotton Bowl to watch a football game. While he was there, he went to the gift shop and bought a bowl that he wanted to use to display the cotton boll that he picked up along the road and which he intends to put on the shelf next to the fish bowl.
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Confusing Words Clarified: Group B; Homonyms, Homophones, Homographs, Synonyms, Polysemes, etc.
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