Definitions
money received from the state
Word origin
From Middle English dol, from Old English dāl (“portion, share, division, allotment”), from Proto-Germanic *dailą (“part, deal”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰayl- (“part, watershed”). Cognate with Old Church Slavonic дѣлити (děliti, “divide”). More at deal.
Used in a sentence
“So sure the dole, so ready at their call, / They stood prepar'd to see the manna fall.”
“Devereux […] was beholden, not only for his fun, but occasionally for his daily bread and even his liberty, to those benovolent^([sic]) doles.”
“c. 1650s, John Cleveland, Upon Phillis Walking in a Morning before Sun-rising At her general dole, / Each receives his ancient soul.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Government aid”4 letters
Not quite right?
"Search similar patterns."
D___