Boult
noun
Sir Adrian Cedric, 1889–1983, English conductor.
Boult
American
[bohlt]
/ boʊlt /
noun
Boult
1
British
/ bəʊlt /
noun
boult
2
British
/ bəʊlt /
verb
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Jasprit Bumrah took two wickets, Trent Boult one and Ashwani Kumar the other - all of which was in vain for Mumbai who also would have topped the table with a win.
From BBC ● May 6, 2025
A few years earlier, Boult had written to Holst asking whether he had composed any music for small orchestra that he could perform.
From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2024
In 1916, the composer Gustav Holst took a young conductor, Adrian Boult, on a long walk through Kew Gardens and Richmond Park in London.
From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2024
Sri Lanka, who were already eliminated, were bowled out for 171, with Black Caps seamer Trent Boult taking 3-36.
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2023
For The Widow And The Fatherless At the initiative of George Boult a subscription was opened for "the widow and children of the late William Day, who had left them without any means of support."
From Mrs. Day's Daughters by Mary E. Mann
Or if thou wilt goe shoote at little birds, With bow and boult, the thrustle-cocke and sparrow, Such as our countrey hedges can afford, I have a fine bowe, and an yvorie arrow.
From The Affectionate Shepherd by J. O. (James Orchard) Halliwell-Phillipps
There let us seek the Church: there let us boult out our cause.”
From The Apology of the Church of England by Lady Ann Bacon
An' here, Padeen, bring a candle—an' turn out them pigs, you sir, an' boult the half-dure, till Miss Tyrrel sees the goods.—Now,
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 by Various
The key fitted, sure enough, and, wi' a strang twist and a lang skreak, the boult went back and he pulled the door open.
From Madam Crowl's Ghost and the Dead Sexton by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Aw, they wouldn’t be hoult; And every trennel and every boult The best of stuff.
From A Singer from the Sea by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
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