tole
1 Americannoun
verb (used with object)
noun
Etymology
Origin of tole
1925–30; < French tôle sheet of iron, plate, dialectal variant of table table
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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
“Now you go on up dar wid Benjy, like I tole you befo,” she said.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
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
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
He wouldn't go in the ranch room; but he made some sort of a talk about music, one thing or another, and he toled Bonnie Bell out into the music room.
From The Man Next Door by Hough, Emerson
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
Wolves were caught in pits, in log pens, in traps; they were also hooked on mackerel hooks bound in an ugly bunch and dipped in tallow, to which they were toled by dead carcasses.
From Customs and Fashions in Old New England by Earle, Alice Morse
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."
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
The toling season continues about three weeks from the first appearance of the ducks, often a much shorter time, as these birds become more cautious, and are no longer deceived in this way.
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:"
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