Definitions
A small short-tailed rodent often found in fields or meadows.
Word origin
Borrowed from Norn vollj, from Old Norse vǫllr (“field”), from Proto-Germanic *walþuz (“forest”). The Orkney dialectal term vole mouse, lit. “field mouse”, was introduced to general English by George Barry in 1805; John Fleming in 1828 was first to refer to the creature by the epithet vole alone. Displaced earlier names for these species which also classified them as mice, e.g. short-tailed field mouse.
Used in a sentence
“Ladies, I'll venture for the vole.”
“With humble curate can I now retire, (While good Sir Peter boozes with the squire,) And at backgammon mortify my soul, That pants for loo, or flutters at a vole?”
“no lad shall chuck, or lady vole, But some excising Courtier will have toll.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Field rodent”4 letters
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