coale

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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

Venetan

Etymology

Compare Italian quale

Pronoun

coale

which

Yola

Alternative forms

khoal, cole

Etymology

From Middle English colden, from Old English *caldian, cealdian.
From Middle English cold, from Old English cald, from Proto-West Germanic *kald.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kɔːɫ/
Homophone: caule

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

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