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▪ I. † gole, n.1 Obs.—1
[? = OE. gál wantonness, etc.]
? = goleness.
a1500Chester Pl. (Shaks. Soc.) I. 229 This frecke [Dives] begines to reme and yole That makes greate dole for gole That he loved wel before.
▪ II. † gole, n.2 Obs. rare.
[? Var. of gool, gull.]
A stream, channel, ditch.
a1400Morte Arth. 3725 Than sir Gawane the gude a galaye he takys, And glides vp at a gole. 1601Holland Pliny I. 66 Although it [the River Po] be deriued and drawne into other riuers and goles, betweene Rauenna and Atium..yet [etc.].
▪ III. † gole, a. Obs.
Forms: 1 gál, 3 gal, 3 gol, 6 goel, 6–7 gole.
[OE. gál = OS. gêl (MDu., Du. geil, popularly also gail, geel), OHG. (MHG., G.) geil, Goth. *gail-s (whence gailjan to cheer, make glad), perh. cognate with L. hilaris, from a root *ghī̆l.]
1. Merry, wanton, lascivious, lustful.
c888K. ælfred Boeth. xxxvii. §4 Þam unᵹestæþþeᵹan & ðam hælᵹan [v.r. galan]. c900tr. Bæda's Hist. v. xiv. [xiii.] (1891) 440 Þurh ða godan gastas oðþe þurh ða galan. c1200Ormin 1201 Gat iss..Gal deor & stinnkeþþ fule. c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 31 Þe gole me. c1275XI Pains Hell 56 in O.E. Misc. 148 Swich pyne heo þolie schal, Þat wes of his fleysse to gal.
2. Of rank or luxuriant growth (cf. quot. 1674–91).
Hilman's statement, in his Tusser Redivivus (1710), that ‘The goeler is the yellower, which are the best setts, old roots being red’, is prob. a mere guess. Grose's ‘Goel or Gole, yellow. Essex and Suff.’ is not otherwise authenticated, and is perh. derived from this very passage.
1573Tusser Husb. xlvi. (1878) 98 Hop rootes..The goeler and yonger the better I loue; well gutted and pared, the better they proue. 1674–91Ray S. & E.C. Words 100 Gole, big, large, full and florid. It is said of rank Corn or Grass, that the Leaf, Blade, or Ear is goal: so of a young Cockrel.
3. As adv. in comparative: More copiously.
1606Warner Alb. Eng. xvi. cv. 413 Nor goler blead his wounde but that her eies shead tears as fast.
Hence † golelich a. [-lich, -ly1], lustful; † golehead [-head; cf. MDu., Du. geilheid, MHG., G. geilheit], lust.
c1000ælfric Hom. II. 156 ælc gallic ontendnys wearð..adwæsced. c1175Lamb. Hom. 145 Summe men luuieð..galiche lectres and luðere lastes. Ibid. 149 Hwenne þe mon him biþenchþ þet he haueð on galiche dede to muche god iwreþed. c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 13 Þat man þe spuse haueð, his golliche deden wið-teo. c1250Gen. & Ex. 534 Golhed hunkinde he gunnen don.
▪ IV. gole
obs. f. goal; var. golee, goles, goll. |