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 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
“I tole you he warn't gwine stay quiet,” Luster said.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
In the autumn I toled and caught those lovely fish the mackerel.
From Twice Told Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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
“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
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
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
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."
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:"
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