coale

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.

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:

     As coale as leed.

     As cold as lead.

• Jacob Poole (1867), 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, page 31 & 102