What is the unit called a boll? Sizes
See also bole, bol. In Scotland, 14ᵗʰ 19ᵗʰ centuries, a unit of capacity, = 64 pecks. The Assize of 1618 created two distinct bolls, one for wheat, pease, beans, rye and white salt, and a larger one for barley, oats and malt. In the British colonies it was sometimes spelled bole. Lederer says that in the colonies the boll was 4 ...