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

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

This industry can be rough and from a far I saw it take a tole on him.

From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2018

Lizabeth tole Biddy they could set up a schedule for what need doing in the house.

From "Girls Like Us" by Gail Giles

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 Alice Morse Earle

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 Emerson Hough

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

In the autumn I toled and caught those lovely fish the mackerel.

From Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

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

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

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 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 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

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