tole

¹

Or tôle

[tohl]

noun

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

tole

²

[tohl]

verb (used with object)

toled, toling 

1. toll.

tole

/ təʊl /

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of tole¹

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of tole¹

from French tôle sheet metal, from French (dialect): table, from Latin tabula table

Example Sentences

“What are we gonna do, Johnny? I tole’ you we shouldn’t have dumped those pieces.”

From Salon

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

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

Subsisting entirely off hard seltzer for 18 months takes its tole on the human body.

From Golf Digest

Almost inevitably there are marble floors with truffle insets, acres of Persian carpets, hard-backed settees upholstered in maroon leather, silk-shaded ginger-jar table lamps casting light on phalaenopsis orchids planted in generic tole jardinières.

From New York Times