The Sun revolves once on its own axis roughly every 25 days. This was measured by reference to black sunspots appearing on the Sun's surface. Conversely the moon does not rotate on its axis at all but is held in stationery in its orbit around the earth.
Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: 1  Bole(noun) the trunk or stem of a tree, or that which is like it. 2  Bole(noun) an aperture, with a wooden shutter, in the wall of a house, for giving, occasionally, air or light; also, a small closet. 3  Bole(noun) a measure.
In the young tree, the bole is straight and upright, and one or two leading branches rise above the rest. Post in Hastings' Did., under Camel) throws doubt on this explanation, and assumes that the more violent hyper bole is intended. Bole, The Harmony Society (Philadelphia, 1904); Charles Nordhoff, The Communistic Societies of the United States (New York, 1875); and among several excellent monographs in German, Karl Knortz, Die christlichkommunistische Kolonie der Rappisten (Leipzig, 1892), and J.