Vole vs Dole - What's the difference?

vole | dole |

As verbs the difference between vole and dole

is that vole is to want while dole is .

vole

English

(wikipedia vole)

Etymology 1

Noun

(en noun)

Any of a large number of species of small rodents of the family Cricetidae.

Derived terms

* volelike * water vole

Etymology 2

(etyl)

Noun

(en noun)

A deal in a card game that draws all the tricks.

(Jonathan Swift)

Verb

(vol)

(card games) To win all the tricks by a vole.

(Alexander Pope)

(Webster 1913)

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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