† ˈboller Obs.
[f. bolle, earlier form of bowl.]
1. One who continues at the bowl; a tippler, a drunkard. Cf. bowl-fellow.
| c 1320 R. Brunne Medit. 477 Both bollers of wyne and eche a gadlyng. c 1340 Alex. & Dind. 675 Baccus þe boller. 1393 Langl. P. Pl. C. x. 194 Bollers atten ale. 1413 Lydg. Pylgr. Sowle iii. ix. (1483) 55 Bollers of wyn and ale. 1542 Udall Erasm. Apoph. 33 a, A greate boller of wyne. |
2. ? A bowl-maker.
| 1415 York Myst. Introd. 25 Turnours, Hayresters, Bollers. |