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
Prior to quitting the BBC for Channel 5 in 2022, Dan Walker shared his high-profile BBC Breakfast presenting tole with 12 years as the host of Football Focus.
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2024
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
She also earned an Emmy nomination for her tole in "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee."
From Fox News ● Dec. 1, 2019
"It's ten bucks, chief. I tole ya that. Ten bucks for a throw, fifteen bucks till noon. I tole ya that."
From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger
“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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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."
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