doole

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /duːl/

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• Rhymes: -uːl

Noun

doole (plural dooles)

1. (obsolete) sorrow; dole
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Till on a day, as in his wonted wise
     His doole he made, there chaunst a turtle
     Dove To come where he his dolors did devise

2. (obsolete) A rest; a short nap.
3. (UK, obsolete, historical) A small conical heap of earth, used in Sussex to mark the bounds of farms and parishes in the downs.

Derived terms

• dooleful

References

• “doole”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• looed