Tole

Quick meaning: Tole is a noun meaning A decorative metalware having a lacquered or enamelled surface that is painted or gilded.

Meaning

A decorative metalware having a lacquered or enamelled surface that is painted or gilded.

More Meanings

1. (uncommon) A tola (unit of mass).
2. (Southern US, African-American Vernacular, and some dialects of England) simple past and past participle of tell
3. Obsolete form of toll, especially in the sense a portion of grain paid to the miller who grinds it.
4. (archaic) To entice; to allure or attract.

Example Sentences

I done tole you for the last time.

It is often necessary to tole a big stag, to induce him to leave the hind .

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 repreſented as dangerous than really are ſo ; and then, that whatever you obſerve him to be more frighted at than he ſhould, you be ſure to tole him on to by inſenſible Degrees, till he at laſt, quitting his Fears, maſters the Difficulty, and comes off with Applauſe.

Word Forms

• toles
• toling
• toled
• tollen
• toll

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include enamelware, lacquerware, metalware, tassel, tinsel, targe.

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