Doles vs Dolls - What's the difference?
doles | dolls |
(dole)
To distribute in small amounts; to share out small portions of a meager resource.
Money or other goods given as charity.
* Dryden
* Keble
Distribution; dealing; apportionment.
* Cleveland
(informal) Payment by the state to the unemployed.
* 1996 , ,
* 1997 , , OECD Economic Surveys: Australia ,
A boundary; a landmark.
(UK, dialect) A void space left in tillage.
(archaic) Sorrow or grief; dolour.
* 1485 , , 1868, Morte Darthur ,
* Tennyson
(legal, Scotland) dolus
As a verb doles
is third-person singular of dole.As a noun dolls is
plural of doll.doles
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Verb
(head)Anagrams
* * * * ----dole
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) dol, from (etyl) .Verb
(dol)Noun
- So sure the dole , so ready at their call, / They stood prepar'd to see the manna fall.
- Heaven has in store a precious dole .
- At her general dole , / Each receives his ancient soul.
- I get my dole paid twice a week.
- I?ve been on the dole for two years now.
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.
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.
- (Halliwell)
Etymology 2
(etyl) dolus, from (etyl) doleo.Noun
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- Sir, said Sir Gingalin, I wot not what knight he was, but well I wot that he sigheth, and maketh great dole .
- And she died. So that day there was dole in Astolat.