Lexicographical Neighbors of Dooles
Literary usage of Dooles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Suffolk Words and Phrases: Or, An Attempt to Collect the Lingual Localisms by Edward Moor (1823)
"It is used either by itself, or in combination ; dewel-post. I have lately learned
that dooles or doles, mean in Norfolk, dividing posts. ..."
2. Report on Manuscripts in Various Collections by Great Britain (1907)
"... that every fisher laying 36 " dooles " and upwards shall lay out half a dool
for the Vicar, 26 dools a quarter and a half, and under 26 dools a quarter, ..."
3. Somerset Medieval Wills by Frederic William Weaver (1905)
"... and there to have suche dooles and distributions to por people, ... at the
cathedral church of Wells and £4.0 distributed there in masses and dooles. ..."
4. English Etymologyby George William Lemon by George William Lemon (1783)
"DULCE AT 7 at the end, add ¡—though dulcet, DULES, or dooles ; Spelin. in Dcl<e,
... vel dooles ; hinc m ..."
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