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

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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

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

“I tole you he warn't gwine stay quiet,” Luster 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 Holman Day

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

From Foes by Mary Johnston

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 Elisha Benjamin Andrews

He was toled into the Sabbath-school—more than that, he coaxed Winny in, a feat which her mother had never succeeded in performing.

From Three People by Pansy

“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

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 William Youatt

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 Montagu Browne

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 William Youatt

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 Alice Morse Earle

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 Montagu Browne

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