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▪ I. † tole, n.1 Obs. rare.
[OE. tál (str. fem.), a by-form of tǽl: see tele n.1]
Evil-speaking, calumny; blasphemy; reproach, blame.
c1000Ags. Gosp. Luke iii. 14 Ne tale ne doð. c1000ælfric Hom. I. 498 ælc synn and tal bið forgifen. a1023Wulfstan Hom. lvii. (1883) 299 Þæt man god to tale habbe. c1315Shoreham i. 975 Þer-fore ȝe mote þolyen hyt [pain] Wyþ-oute alle manere tole [rime hole = whole].
▪ II. tole, n.2|təʊl|
Also ‖ tôle.
[a. F. tôle sheet-iron, f. dial. taule table, f. L. tabula a flat board.]
a. Tin-plated sheet-iron which is first varnished and then ornamented by decorative painting. Also in phr. tôle peinte, painted sheet-iron.
1946National Button Bull. (U.S.) Oct. 290 Let's consider these buttons of japanned or lacquered metals. First we have those of Tôle, which are really of tin... Tôle is composed of thinly rolled sheets of iron, tinned. 1958Times 29 Nov. 8/6 A Regency library table decorated in tôle peinte..made {pstlg}540. 1973Canadian Antiques Collector Jan.–Feb. 28/2 The French-Canadian workers in ‘tole’ or sheet iron.
b. attrib. and Comb.
1948E. O. Christensen Popular Art in U.S. 19 Toleware Coffee-pot... Though called Pennsylvania Dutch, it was of English production... The term ‘japanned’ tin⁓ware, or toleware, is applied to..household utensils..made of sheet iron, covered with a coating of tin. 1960Washington Post 12 Mar. a–6 (Advt.), All metal tole lamps with brass accents. 1973New Yorker 3 Feb. 40/3 Toleware—exquisite hand-painted tinware produced in the nineteenth century in Pennsylvania, New York State, Ohio, and New England. 1975Country Life 11 Dec. (Suppl.) 22/1 Pair of Austrian tôle peinte figures of red Indians..sold at Christie's..for {pstlg}4,200. 1976National Observer (U.S.) 17 Jan. 10/2 The city's community-education system offers hundreds of classes that vary from appliance repair to tole painting.
▪ III. tole|təʊl|
repr. a U.S. dial. and Black English pronunc. of told pa. tense and pa. pple.
1797J. Barton Let. in Amer. Speech 1969 (1973) XLIV. 304 If I had a tole any such a story. a1911D. G. Phillips Susan Lenox (1917) I. ix. 152 So you ain't tole her? Well, Keziah, I've been and gone and got married. 1935Z. N. Hurston Mules & Men (1970) i. i. 26 John tole him, ‘Massa, he had two great big eyes lak balls of fire.’ 1955F. O'Connor Wise Blood iv. 72, I done tole you them tires won't bust. 1979‘E. McBain’ Calypso ix. 122 She tole me what she'd been doin.
▪ IV. tole
obs. f. or var. of tola1, toll (esp. v.1), tool. |