Viroled vs Violed - What's the difference?

viroled | violed |


As an adjective viroled

is furnished with viroles; said of a horn or bugle whose rings are of different tincture.

As a verb violed is

past tense of viol.

viroled

English

Adjective

(-)
  • (heraldry) Furnished with viroles; said of a horn or bugle whose rings are of different tincture.
    • (Webster 1913)

    violed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (viol)

    • viol

    English

    (wikipedia viol)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A viola da gamba, a family of musical instruments that preceded the violin and viola and similar string instruments

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To play the viol.
  • * (Sir Walter Scott)
    • “Keep your gold for those who lack it, mistress,” said Henry, “and do not offer to honest hands the money that is won by violing , and tabouring, and toetripping, and perhaps worse pastimes.
  • * (Thomas Hardy)
    • Through snowy woods and shady / We went to play a tune / To the lonely manor-lady / By the light of the Christmas moon. / We violed till, upward glancing / To where a mirror leaned, / It showed her airily dancing
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