Definition of Dools

1. dool [n] - See also: dool

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dools

dookie hole
dookie holes
dooking
dooks
dooky
dool
doolally
doolally tap
doole
doolee
doolees
dooles
doolie
doolies
dools (current term)
dooly
doom
doom-and-gloom
doom-and-gloomer
doom-and-gloomers
doom and gloom
doom metal
doom palm
doomage
doomages
doomed
doomedness
doomer
doomers

Literary usage of Dools

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Out West: A Magazine of the Old Pacific and the New by Charles Fletcher Lummis, Archaeological Institute of America Southwest Society, Sequoya League (1908)
"dools By RC PITZER. AVE you ever fit a dool ?" Beasom asked me, as he rested his elbow on the bar. "No? Maybe you don't know what them is, exactly? ..."

2. Zoography: Or, The Beauties of Nature Displayed. In Select Descriptions from by William Wood (1807)
"These smaller ropes being properly adjusted, a couple of large cables (the dools) with running nooses are put around his neck ; and after being drawn ..."

3. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1794)
"... of the dools becoming tight, ¡o as to endanger the life of the elephant in ... pull him forward by the dools, and the people from behind urge him on. ..."

4. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1794)
"... a couple of large cables (the dools) with running ... of the dools becoming tight, fo as to endanger the life of the elephant in his exertions to free ..."

5. Putnam's & the Reader (1909)
"Then he turns to Henry an' he says: "dools is out o' fashion, ain't they? ... He says, placid an" chilly: "Yes, sir, dools is out of fashion, ..."

6. Report on Manuscripts in Various Collections by Great Britain (1907)
"... and upwards shall lay out half a dool for the Vicar, 26 dools a quarter and a half, and under 26 dools a quarter, and no more. ..."

7. The Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia by John Mactaggart (1876)
"dools—A school game; and school games are by no means things unworthy observation, as many of them bespeak matters of the olden time; the one of dools then, ..."

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