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▪ I. ‖ tule U.S.|ˈtuːleɪ|
Also tula, toolie, tulé, tuley.
[ad. Aztec tullin, the final n being dropped by the Spaniards as in Guatemala, Jalapa, etc.]
a. Either of two species of bulrush (Scirpus lacustris var. occidentalis, and S. Tatora) abundant in low lands along riversides in California; hence, a thicket of this, or a flat tract of land in which it grows.
1837P. L. Edwards Jrnl. 20 July (1932) 26 Driving her along the margin of a bulrush or Tule pond she turned about. 1845J. C. Frémont Rep. Exploring Expedition 252 They..live principally on acorns and roots of the tulé, of which also their huts are made. 1850W. R. Ryan Personal Adv. Upper & Lower Calif. I. 298 The Indians of the party were despatched to hunt up the banks of the river for toolies. 1856Olmsted Journ. Texas iii. 149 Windowless cabins of stakes, plastered with mud and roofed with river-grass or ‘tula’. 1882Harper's Mag. Nov. 876 The tules or rushes rise high above our heads, and..are infested with a dangerous breed of wild hogs. 1892Outing Jan. 329/2 Arriving at a small patch of tuleys about the middle of the lake. 1893A. F. Battelle in Chicago Advance 2 Feb., Because of the tall rushes that grow there the land is called the tule. The tule is always low and level. 1894O. Wister in Harper's Mag. Sept. 520 That dug-out with side-thatch and roofing of tule.
b. attrib., as tule-farm, tule hut, tule land, tule marsh, tule root, tule swamp; tule fog U.S., fog over low-lying ground; tule wren, a kind of marsh wren (Telmatodytes or Cistothorus palustris, var. paludicola) which frequents the tules of California.
1850B. Taylor Eldorado vii. (1862) 73 The hazy air, made more dense by the smoke of the burning tule marshes. 1883Stevenson Silverado Sq. 2 Across the cornlands and thick tule swamps of Sacramento Valley. 1890Gunter Miss Nobody iv, The baked leaves of century plant, acorns, and tule roots. 1891A. Welcker Wild West 64 A cabin on a swampy tule farm. 1899Monthly Weather Rev. Dec. 536/2 Connected with this pressure distribution was the prevalence of tule fog in the great valleys of California... This ground or tule fog was so dense as to seriously inconvenience farming operations. 1934S. E. White Folded Hills 340 A tule fog lay thick over the bottomlands. 1980M. G. Eberhart Casa Madrone vi. 81 The evening breeze freshened, yet was still moist... Scott said..‘The tule fog is coming in.’
▪ II. tule
obs. f. tool, tuilyie; var. tuly Obs. |