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English
Noun
coale (countable and uncountable, plural coales)
- Obsolete form of coal.
Latin
Verb
coale
- second-person singular present active imperative of coalō
Venetian
Etymology
Compare Italian quale
Pronoun
coale
- which
Yola
Etymology
Pronunciation
Verb
coale
- to make cold, to chill
Adjective
coale
- cold
1867, “CASTEALE CUDDE'S LAMENTATION”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 2, page 102:Which maate mee hearth as coale as leed.- Which made my heart as cold as lead.
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 31 & 102