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Cole vs Colde - What's the difference?

cole | colde |

As a noun cole

is cabbage.

As a proper noun Cole

is an English surname, possibly a nickname from col, Old English "charcoal,coal-black".

As an adjective colde is

an archaic spelling of cold.

cole

English

Etymology 1

(wikipedia cole) (Brassica) From (etyl), from (etyl) . Cognate with Dutch kool, German Kohl

Noun

(en-noun)
  • Cabbage.
  • Brassica; a plant of the Brassica'' genus, especially those of ''Brassica oleracea (rape and coleseed).
    • Derived terms
    * coleseed * coleslaw
    Related terms
    * colewort

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Scotland) A stack or stook of hay.
  • * 1932 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Sunset Song'', Polygon 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), p. 39:
    • 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 [...].

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    colde

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1849 , author=Samuel Roffey Maitland , title= Essays on Subjects Connected with the Reformation in England , chapter= citation , isbn= , page=8 , passage=There was a great fyer in the chamber, the wether was colde , and I saw now and then a Bishop come out;}}

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