bocal

Borrowed from French bocal. Doublet of boccale and pokal.

• enPR: bōˈ kəl, bō kalˈ
• IPA^(key): /ˈboʊkəl/, /boʊˈkæl/

bocal (plural bocals or bocaux)

1. A curved, tapered metal tube which connects the reed of several double reed woodwind instruments (such as the cor anglais, bassoon, and contrabassoon) to the rest of the instrument.
2. A cylindrical glass vessel with a short wide neck.
   • 1888, Victor Hugo, anonymous translator, “Ἀνάγκη [Anánkē]”, in Notre-Dame de Paris. […], volume II, New York, N.Y.: The Athenaeum Society, →OCLC, book VII, page 45:

     Something very similar to Faust’s cell presented itself to the view of Jehan when he ventured his head within the half-open door. It was a similar gloomy, dim-lighted nook. There was also a large fauteuil and a large table; compasses; alembics; skeletons of animals suspended from the ceiling; a sphere rolling on the floor; hippocéphales promiscuously with bocaux in which were quivering leaves of gold; […]

   • 1922 September 3, Blanche McManus, “The Town that Perfumes the World”, in St. Louis Post-Dispatch, volume 74, number 363, St. Louis, Mo., →ISSN, →OCLC, “The Post-Dispatch Sunday Magazine” section, page 5, column 3:

     One of the biggest features of this Grasse perfume industry is the distillation of these essences in their simple forms, selling them in bulk, in demijohns and estagons and bocaux, to the wholesale perfume makers, the fabricators and the second fusion operators throughout the worid.

   • 1979 October 24, Craig Claiborne, “Pate de foie gras called the ultimate”, in The Greenwood Commonwealth, Greenwood, Miss., published 26 October 1979, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3, column 4:

     Foie gras comes in bocaux, hermetically sealed glass jars, or in fancy terrines, round porcelain crocks, fancily decorated and more expensive because of the packaging.

Borrowed from Italian boccale.

• IPA^(key): /bɔ.kal/

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bocal m (plural bocaux)

1. jar
2. (fish) bowl

• → English: bocal

• “bocal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From boca +‎ -al.^[1][2]

• Homophones: bucal (Portugal), vocal (Porto)
• Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
• Hyphenation: bo‧cal

bocal m (plural bocais)

1. an aperture
   1. brim (of a bottle or any other container)

      Encha até o bocal. ― Fill it up to the brim.

      Synonym: boca

   2. (construction) the metal piece into which a light bulb is inserted and rotated
   3. the part of the candlestick into which the candle is inserted
   4. (construction) parapet at the edge of a cistern or well
   5. lower part of a coat's sleeve
2. in saddle animals
   1. leather strip initially used to tame a saddle animal
   2. silk or cotton strip that, in saddle animals, replaces the leather strip
   3. bit (metal in horse’s mouth)

      Synonyms: morso, bocado

3. nozzle
4. (music) a type of embouchure
5. (medicine) a channel that, when fixated to the tip of a duct, regulates the liquid flux or is used to pass fluid

• bocado

bocal n (plural bocaluri)

1. alternative form of pocal

• IPA^(key): /boˈkal/ [boˈkal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: bo‧cal

bocal m (plural bocales)

1. A kind of pitcher or jar

• “bocal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024