Petanque vs. Boule: What's the Difference?

A game of French origin in which metal balls are thrown toward a target ball, played outside on a roughly surfaced rectangular court.

Often boules (bl) Any of several related bowling games, such as bocce or pétanque, traditionally played on an outdoor court.

(uncountable) pétanque

The ball used in one of these games.

Any of various ores, including forms of silver sulfide (such as stephanite) and the copper ore tetrahedrite.

A round loaf of bread.

A pear-shaped synthetic sapphire, ruby, or other alumina-based gem, produced by fusing and tinting alumina.

One of the bowls used in the French game of boules.

A single-crystal ingot produced by synthetic means.

A round loaf of bread.

A round piece of dough.

(woodworking) A through-sawn log with the slices restacked in the order and orientation they originally had in the log, usually with waney edges.

(woodworking) buhl

(historical) A council of citizens in Ancient Greece

To shape (a piece of dough) into a ball.

Same as Buhl, Buhlwork.

A legislative council of elders or chiefs; a senate.

Legislature of modern Greece. See Legislature.

An inlaid furniture decoration; tortoiseshell and yellow and white metal form scrolls in cabinetwork