name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
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Standard Lemma guide
tole
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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General-American: /tol/
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homophone: toll
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CMU ARPABET: T OW1 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A decorative metalware having a lacquered or enamelled surface that is painted or gilded.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: toleware
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
Obsolete form of toll, especially in the sense a portion of grain paid to the miller who grinds it.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, obsolete, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 4
A tola (unit of mass).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncommon
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verb
Meaning 5
To entice; to allure or attract.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
Examples
- It is often necessary to tole a big stag, to induce him to leave the hind ...
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verb
Meaning 6
simple past and past participle of tell
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: England, Southern-US, dialectal, form-of, participle, past
Qualifier: African-American Vernacular
Examples
- I done tole you for the last time.
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noun
Meaning 7
enameled or lacquered metalware (usually gilded and elaborately painted); popular in the 18th century
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the Pennsylvania Dutch tole watering can might be a reproduction but it looks convincing
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Synonyms: none provided
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Broader terms: metalware
History
Etymology
* As an English surname, variant of Toll and Towle. * As an Albanian surname, from a short form of Apostol.
From French tôle (“sheet iron”), from dialectal French taule (“table”), from Latin tabula. Doublet of table.
See toll.
From Old English *tyll, related to betyllan (“to allure”) and fortyllan (“to seduce”).