# tole
## English
### Pronunciation

* (General American) IPA: /tol/
* Homophone: toll

### Etymology 1

From French tôle (“sheet iron”), from dialectal French taule (“table”), from Latin tabula. Doublet of table.

#### Noun

tole (uncountable)
* A decorative metalware having a lacquered or enamelled surface that is painted or gilded.

### Etymology 2

From Old English *tyll, related to betyllan (“to allure”) and fortyllan (“to seduce”).

#### Verb

tole (third-person singular simple present toles, present participle toling, simple past toled, past participle toled or tollen)
* (archaic) To entice; to allure or attract.
    It is often necessary to tole a big stag, to induce him to leave the hind ...
** 1693, John Locke, “Some Thoughts Concerning Education”, in The works of John Locke Esq, volume III, published 1797, page 52:And thus the young Soldier is to be train’d on to the Warfare of Life ; wherein Care is to be taken that more things be not repreſented as dangerous than really are ſo ; and then, that whatever you obſerve him to be more frighted at than he ſhould, you be ſure to tole him on to by inſenſible Degrees, till he at laſt, quitting his Fears, maſters the Difficulty, and comes off with Applauſe.

##### Alternative forms

* toll

### Etymology 3

See toll.

#### Noun

tole (uncountable)
* Obsolete form of toll, especially in the sense a portion of grain paid to the miller who grinds it.

### Etymology 4
#### Noun

tole (plural toles)
* (uncommon) A tola (unit of mass).

### Etymology 5
#### Verb

tole
* (Southern US, African-American Vernacular, and some dialects of England) simple past and past participle of tell
    I done tole you for the last time.

### Anagrams

* ELOT, LOTE, Leto, lote, telo-

## Alemannic German
### Etymology

From Middle High German doln, from Old High German dolēn (“to endure”).

### Verb

tole (Uri)
* to tolerate
* to endure

### References

* Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & Co., page 21.

## Latvian
### Noun

tole f (5th declension)
* A female cow without horns (see Polled livestock at Wikipedia)
* (by extension, derogatory) A woman lacking in initiative

#### Usage notes

* This word is rather old and is not widely used in the modern language.

## Lindu
### Noun

tole
* urine

## Middle English
### Etymology 1

From Old English tōl.

#### Noun

tole
* Alternative form of tool (“tool”)

### Etymology 2

From Old English tyllan.

#### Verb

tole
* Alternative form of tollen (“to bring”)

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Alternative forms

* tola

### Etymology

From Old Norse þola.

### Verb

tole (present tense toler, past tense tolte, past participle tolt, passive infinitive tolast, present participle tolande, imperative tol)
* to bear, endure, stand, tolerate
    Dei toler ikkje synet av kvarandre. - They can't stand the sight of each other.(please add an English translation of this usage example)

### See also

* tåle (Bokmål)

### References

* “tole” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Old English
### Noun

tōle
* dative singular of tōl

## Slovene
### Pronoun

tole
* inflection of tale:
** accusative singular feminine
** nominative/accusative singular neuter

## Uzbek
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic طَالِع (ṭāliʕ).

### Noun

tole (plural tolelar)
* luck, fortune, fate