Cole vs Bole - What's the difference?
cole | bole |
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:
The trunk or stem of a tree.
* Tennyson
* 1908 ,
(Scotland) An aperture with a shutter in the wall of a house, for giving air or light.
(Scotland) A small closet.
* Sir Walter Scott
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.
In scotland terms the difference between cole and bole
is that cole is a stack or stook of hay while bole is a small closet.As nouns the difference between cole and bole
is that cole is cabbage while bole is the trunk or stem of a tree.As a proper noun Cole
is an English surname, possibly a nickname from col, Old English "charcoal,coal-black".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 [...].
Anagrams
* ----bole
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) bolr, akin to Danish bul and German .Noun
(en noun)- Enormous elm-tree boles did stoop and lean.
- 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.
- 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)- (Coleridge)