Noun: cole
Sample Sentences
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Father saw the happening from high in a park where the hay was cut and they set the swathes in coles, and he swore out Damn't to hell! and started to run […] [1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 39:]
Nouns inflected like cole
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English cole, col, from Old English cawel, an early Germanic borrowing from Latin caulis (“cabbage”). Cognate with Dutch kool, German Kohl, Danish kål, Norwegian Bokmål kål, Norwegian Nynorsk kål, Swedish kål. Doublet of caulis, gobi, and kale. See: Middle English Nouns '
cole', Old English Nouns '
cawel', Latin Nouns '
caulis', Dutch Nouns '
kool', German Nouns '
Kohl', Danish Nouns '
kål', Norwegian Bokmål Nouns '
kål', Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns '
kål', Swedish Nouns '
kål'.
Verbs referencing "cole"
Spanish Nouns
col.