Vole
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /vəʊl/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Vole is a noun meaning Any of a large number of species of small rodents of the tribes Arvicolini, Ellobiusini, Clethrionomyini, Pliomyini, Phenacomyini and Prometheomyini.
Meaning
Any of a large number of species of small rodents of the tribes Arvicolini, Ellobiusini, Clethrionomyini, Pliomyini, Phenacomyini and Prometheomyini.
More Meanings
- (archaic) A deal in a card game, écarté, that draws all the tricks.
- (archaic, card games, intransitive) To win all the tricks by a vole.
Example Sentences
Ladies, I'll venture for the vole.
no lad shall chuck, or lady vole, But some excising Courtier will have toll.
With humble curate can I now retire, (While good Sir Peter boozes with the squire,) And at backgammon mortify my soul, That pants for loo, or flutters at a vole?
Word Forms
- voles
- voling
- voled
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include rodent, fly, skulled, flap, float, night.
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