Tole

//tol// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    A decorative metalware having a lacquered or enamelled surface that is painted or gilded. uncountable
  2. 2
    Obsolete form of toll, especially in the sense a portion of grain paid to the miller who grinds it. alt-of, obsolete, uncountable
  3. 3
    A tola (unit of mass). uncommon
  4. 4
    enameled or lacquered metalware (usually gilded and elaborately painted); popular in the 18th century wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To entice; to allure or attract. archaic

    "It is often necessary to tole a big stag, to induce him to leave the hind ..."

  2. 2
    simple past and past participle of tell England, Southern-US, dialectal, form-of, participle, past

    "I done tole you for the last time."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From French tôle (“sheet iron”), from dialectal French taule (“table”), from Latin tabula. Doublet of table.

Etymology 2

From Old English *tyll, related to betyllan (“to allure”) and fortyllan (“to seduce”).

Etymology 3

See toll.

Etymology 4

* As an English surname, variant of Toll and Towle. * As an Albanian surname, from a short form of Apostol.

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