coale

coale (countable and uncountable, plural coales)

1. Obsolete form of coal.

coale

1. second-person singular present active imperative of coalō

Compare Italian quale

coale

1. which

• khoal, cole

• From Middle English colden, from Old English *caldian, cealdian.
• From Middle English cold, from Old English cald, from Proto-West Germanic *kald.

• IPA^(key): /kɔːɫ/
• Homophone: caule

coale

1. to make cold, to chill

coale

1. cold
   • 1867, “CASTEALE CUDDE'S LAMENTATION”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 2, page 102:

     Which maate mee hearth as coale as leed.

     Which made my heart as cold as lead.

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 31 & 102