Tole vs Toile - What's the difference?
tole | toile |
(uncountable) A decorative metalware having a lacquered or enamelled surface that is painted or gilded
(uncommon) tola (unit of mass)
To entice.
* 1693 , '', 1797, ''The works of John Locke Esq , Volume III,
To allure.
To attract.
As nouns the difference between tole and toile
is that tole is a decorative metalware having a lacquered or enamelled surface that is painted or gilded while toile is plain or simple twilled fabric.As a verb tole
is to entice.tole
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl)Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
From (etyl) stem *tyll, related to .Alternative forms
* (Etymology 3)Verb
- It is often necessary to tole a big stag, to induce him to leave the hind ...
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- 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.
