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Tole vs Dole - What's the difference?

tole | dole |

As a noun tole

is sheet metal or tole can be .

As a verb dole is

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tole

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (uncountable) A decorative metalware having a lacquered or enamelled surface that is painted or gilded
  • (uncommon) tola (unit of mass)

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) stem *tyll, related to .

    Alternative forms

    * (Etymology 3)

    Verb

  • To entice.
    • It is often necessary to tole a big stag, to induce him to leave the hind ...
  • * 1693 , '', 1797, ''The works of John Locke Esq , Volume III, page 52,
    • And thus the young Soldier is to be train’d on to the Warfare of Life ; wherein Care is to be taken that more things be not repre?ented as dangerous than really are ?o ; and then, that whatever you ob?erve him to be more frighted at than he ?hould, you be ?ure to tole him on to by in?en?ible Degrees, till he at la?t, quitting his Fears, ma?ters the Difficulty, and comes off with Applau?e.
  • To allure.
  • To attract.

    • Anagrams

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    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

    Anagrams

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