Coble vs Cole - What's the difference?
coble | cole |
(nautical) small flat-bottomed fishing boat suitable for launching from a beach, found on the north-east coast of England and in Scotland.
Cabbage.
Brassica; a plant of the Brassica'' genus, especially those of ''Brassica oleracea (rape and coleseed).
(Scotland) A stack or stook of hay.
* 1932 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Sunset Song'', Polygon 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), p. 39:
As a noun coble
is (nautical) small flat-bottomed fishing boat suitable for launching from a beach, found on the north-east coast of england and in scotland.As a verb cole is
.coble
English
Noun
(en noun)External links
* (wikipedia "coble")cole
English
Etymology 1
(wikipedia cole) (Brassica) From (etyl), from (etyl) . Cognate with Dutch kool, German KohlNoun
(en-noun)Derived terms
* coleseed * coleslawEtymology 2
Noun
(en noun)- Father saw the happening from high in a park where the hay was cut and they set the swathes in coles , and he swore out Damn't to hell! and started to run [...].