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dooles

dooles is the plural of doole.

Meaning of doole

Noun

doole (plural dooles)

  1. (obsolete) sorrow; dole
    • Till on a day, as in his wonted wise
      His doole he made, there chaunst a turtle
      Dove To come where he his dolors did devise1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  2. (obsolete) A rest; a short nap.
  3. (UK, historical, obsolete) A small conical heap of earth, used in Sussex to mark the bounds of farms and parishes in the downs.

Questions about dooles

What is dooles the plural of?
Dooles is the plural of doole.

Words near dooles in the dictionary

  1. Doolan
  2. Doolans
  3. doole
  4. doolee
  5. doolees
  6. dooles
  7. dooley
  8. dooleys
  9. doolie
  10. doolies
  11. dooligah

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