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Dole vs Cole - What's the difference?

dole | cole |

As nouns the difference between dole and cole

is that dole is money or other goods given as charity while cole is cabbage.

As a verb dole

is to distribute in small amounts; to share out small portions of a meager resource.

As a proper noun Cole is

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

dole

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) dol, from (etyl) .

Verb

(dol)
  • To distribute in small amounts; to share out small portions of a meager resource.

    • Noun

  • Money or other goods given as charity.
  • * Dryden
    • So sure the dole , so ready at their call, / They stood prepar'd to see the manna fall.
  • * Keble
    • Heaven has in store a precious dole .
  • Distribution; dealing; apportionment.
  • * Cleveland
    • At her general dole , / Each receives his ancient soul.
  • (informal) Payment by the state to the unemployed.
    • I get my dole paid twice a week.
    I?ve been on the dole for two years now.
  • * 1996 , , page 107,
    • The men sit because they?re worn out from walking to the Labour Exchange every morning to sign for the dole , discussing the world?s problems and wondering what to do with the rest of the day.
  • * 1997 , , OECD Economic Surveys: Australia , page 67,
    • The FY 1997/98 Commonwealth budget allocated funding of A$ 21.6 million to the Work for the Dole initiative for unemployed young people.
  • A boundary; a landmark.
    • (Halliwell)
  • (UK, dialect) A void space left in tillage.

    • Etymology 2

    (etyl) dolus, from (etyl) doleo.

    Noun

    (-)
  • (archaic) Sorrow or grief; dolour.
  • * 1485 , , 1868, Morte Darthur , page 212,
    • Sir, said Sir Gingalin, I wot not what knight he was, but well I wot that he sigheth, and maketh great dole .
  • * Tennyson
    • And she died. So that day there was dole in Astolat.
  • (legal, Scotland) dolus
    • Derived terms
    * (payment to support the unemployed) dole bludger

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    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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