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▪ I. dool1, dole|duːl, dəʊl|
Also 6 dowe, 7–8 dowl(e, 6– Sc. dule.
[Corresponds to E.Fris. dôle, dôl, landmark, boundary-mark; a stake, stone, hole in the ground, furrow, ditch, etc., used to mark and determine the boundaries of property. Cf. also Du. doel aim, mark, butt, in Flemish and earlier mod.Du. (Kilian) a heap of earth, esp. that on which the mark stands at a shooting-place, which is app. related to MLG., LG. dôle fem., grave with the mound of earth heaped over it.]
1. A boundary or landmark, consisting of a post, a stone, or an unploughed balk or strip of land.
c1440Promp. Parv. 126/1 Dole, merke, meta. 1445Paston Lett. No. 46 I. 58 He hath pullid uppe the doolis, and seithe he wolle makyn a dyche fro the corner of his walle..to the newe diche of the grete cloose. 1563Homilies ii. Rogation Week (1859) 496 Accursed be he..who removeth his neighbours doles and marks. 1580in Picton L'pool Munic. Rec. (1883) I. 54 The dowe stone or meire stone, which was placed and set by the Jury. 1681Worlidge Dict. Rust., Dool, a green balk or mound between the ploughed lands in common fields. a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Dool, Dole, a boundary mark in an uninclosed field. It is very often a low post; thence called a Dool-post. 1875Sussex Gloss., Doole, a conical lump of earth, about three feet in diameter..and about two feet in height, raised to show the bounds of parishes or farms on the Downs.
2. Sc. |dyl|. The goal in a game.
a1550Christis Kirke Gr. xxii, Fresch men cam in and hail'd the dulis, And dang tham doun in dailis. 1721Ramsay Lucky Spence vii, Gar the kirk-boxie hale the dools. 1783Tytler Poet. Rem. Jas. I, 187 (Jam.) When the [foot]ball touches the goal or mark, the winner calls out, Hail! or it has hail'd the dulis. 1802Sibbald Chron. Scot. Poet. II. 370 note (Jam.) In the game of golf..when the ball reached the mark, the winner, to announce his victory, called, Hail dule!
3. attrib., as dool-post, dool-stone.
1580Dole-stone [see above]. 1630MS. Acc. St. John's Hosp., Canterb., Layd out for seauen dowlstones xviijd. a1825Dole-post [see above]. 1887Kent. Gloss., Dole-stone, a landmark.
Hence dool v. trans., to mark off by dools.
1656in MS. Conveyance, As it is now dowled, and allready sett out.
▪ II. dool2
variant of dole n.2, grief, mourning.
▪ III. dool(e
obs. form of dole n.1, v.2 |