woul

English

Verb

woul (third-person singular simple present wouls, present participle wouling, simple past and past participle wouled)

  1. (obsolete) To howl.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for woul in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Middle English

Noun

woul

  1. Alternative form of wolle

Yola

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle English willen, from Old English willan, from Proto-West Germanic *willjan.

Verb

woul

  1. will
    • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:
      Ich woul ich had.
      I wish I had.

Noun

woul

  1. will

References
  • 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 79
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