tole

Plural: toles

Noun

• enameled or lacquered metalware (usually gilded and elaborately painted); popular in the 18th century
  • "the Pennsylvania Dutch tole watering can might be a reproduction but it looks convincing"
• A decorative metalware having a lacquered or enamelled surface that is painted or gilded.
• Obsolete form of toll, especially in the sense a portion of grain paid to the miller who grinds it.
• A tola (unit of mass).

Verb

Verb Forms: toled, toling, toles

• To entice, lure, or allure, often subtly.
• To entice; to allure or attract.
• simple past and past participle of tell

Examples

• Her cunning play of TOLE managed to allure her opponent into opening a triple-word score lane.
• I done tole you for the last time.
• It is often necessary to tole a big stag, to induce him to leave the hind ...

Anagrams of tole