tole

¹ American  

[tohl] / toʊl /

Or tôle

noun

1. enameled or lacquered metalware, usually with gilt decoration, often used, especially in the 18th century, for trays, lampshades, etc.

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tole ² American  

[tohl] / toʊl /

verb (used with object)

toled, toling

1. toll.

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tole British  

/ təʊl /

noun

1. enamelled or lacquered metal ware, usually gilded, popular in the 18th century

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Etymology

Origin of tole

1925–30; < French tôle sheet of iron, plate, dialectal variant of table table

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

tole toled toling

Just days later, the Bills experienced a devastating loss against the Broncos, which led to the firing of the head coach, who held the tole from 2017 to 2025.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 4, 2026

It's clear this is the sort of game that Daniels has long expected to play a leading tole in, going back his days at Mater Dei High School near Los Angeles.

From Fox News ● Aug. 31, 2021

It’s clear this is the sort of game that Daniels has long expected to play a leading tole in, going back his days at Mater Dei High School near Los Angeles.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 31, 2021

This industry can be rough and from a far I saw it take a tole on him.

From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2018

We went back to our little apartment and I tole Biddy we need to have us a talk.

From "Girls Like Us" by Gail Giles

The long line of the Aqueduct, arch after arch, succession fixed, sequence which the gaze made unitary, toled on his thought.

From Foes by Johnston, Mary

Many wavering Democrats in the South, especially those of the nullification stripe, were toled to the whig ticket by the nomination of John Tyler for Vice-President.

From History of the United States, Volume 3 by Andrews, Elisha Benjamin

After a time we all became sort of interested in him, and toled him up to the camp by leavin' hay an' grain round where he could get at it.

From The Rainy Day Railroad War by Day, Holman

Toter heard him hootin’ out in the swirl of snow on the Dickery pond and toled him ashore by hootin’ back at him.

From King Spruce, A Novel by Day, Holman

“No; i’ve toled fifty on ye so this mornin’—it’s a oaks.”

From Punch, or the London Charivari. Volume 1, July 31, 1841 by Various

In his activity and industry in this simple branch of education, within the comprehension of any dog, consists the almost incredible art of toling the canvass-back.

From The Dog by Youatt, William

A more singular way still, of decoying these birds to the gun is by the American fashion of "toling," a lucid description of which I append, culled from the pages of Folkard's "Wildfowler:"

From Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy. by Browne, Montagu

This accidental discovery of so weak a point in the nature of the feathered tribe led the sportsman to turn it to advantage, and thence arose the curious art of "toling."

From Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy. by Browne, Montagu

Although the toling of ducks is so simple in its process, there are few dogs that have sufficient industry and perseverance to arrive at any degree of perfection in the art.

From The Dog by Youatt, William

In 1676 Master Mace wrote of the singing in English churches, "'T is sad to hear what whining, toling, yelling or shreaking there is in our country congregations."

From Sabbath in Puritan New England by Earle, Alice Morse