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Bole vs Tole - What's the difference?

bole | tole |

As a verb bole

is .

As a noun tole is

sheet metal or tole can be .

bole

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) bolr, akin to Danish bul and German .

Noun

(en noun)
  • The trunk or stem of a tree.
  • * Tennyson
  • Enormous elm-tree boles did stoop and lean.
  • * 1908 ,
  • A fine powder filled the air and caressed the cheek with a tingle in its touch, and the black boles of the trees showed up in a light that seemed to come from below.
  • (Scotland) An aperture with a shutter in the wall of a house, for giving air or light.
  • (Scotland) A small closet.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
  • Open the bole wi' speed, that I may see if this be the right Lord Geraldin.

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) : compare (etyl) bol.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any of several varieties of friable earthy clay, usually coloured red by iron oxide, and composed essentially of hydrous silicates of alumina, or more rarely of magnesia.
  • (obsolete) A bolus; a dose.
  • (Coleridge)

    Etymology 3

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (old unit of measure)
  • (Mortimer)

    Anagrams

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    tole

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (uncountable) A decorative metalware having a lacquered or enamelled surface that is painted or gilded
  • (uncommon) tola (unit of mass)
  • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) stem *tyll, related to .

    Alternative forms

    * (Etymology 3)

    Verb

  • To entice.
  • It is often necessary to tole a big stag, to induce him to leave the hind ...
  • * 1693 , '', 1797, ''The works of John Locke Esq , Volume III, page 52,
  • And thus the young Soldier is to be train’d on to the Warfare of Life ; wherein Care is to be taken that more things be not repre?ented as dangerous than really are ?o ; and then, that whatever you ob?erve him to be more frighted at than he ?hould, you be ?ure to tole him on to by in?en?ible Degrees, till he at la?t, quitting his Fears, ma?ters the Difficulty, and comes off with Applau?e.
  • To allure.
  • To attract.
  • Anagrams

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