doole
noun/duːl/
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.
- Derived terms
- dooleful