Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An obsolete or dialectal form of
will .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- verb obsolete See 2d
will .
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- verb Obsolete form of
will .
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Examples
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Some of these usages were more scattered than others, and it seems like the big division eventually came down to will-type usages versus woll-type usages, which lasted into the mid-1800s before will cornered the modal market.
Preposterous Apostrophes VII: Why Won’t Willn’t Work? « Motivated Grammar 2008
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Generally, though, speakers just added not after whatever form of will/woll/welle/ool they were using.
Preposterous Apostrophes VII: Why Won’t Willn’t Work? « Motivated Grammar 2008
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Whoever gets the Dem nomination will get my vote, and if you have emough sense to pour piss out of boot, they woll get yours too. ps I'm a 68 year old Texas Democrat, and I am supporting Hillary, regardless of what you call her, as long as she is running.
Hillary Adviser Wolfson: Obama's Claim That Bill Is Fibbing Is A "Right Wing Talking Point" 2009
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So now let us pull the woll over each other's toes and go to Hell.
"I think Barack took 10 times as much grief from those on the left on the Review as from those of us on the right." Ann Althouse 2008
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Mostly because I haven't got the capital for needles and woll and stuff.
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‘One dave she woll go too farther, and I woll leaf her’ he said to his fave rave horse.
A Spaniard in the Works John Lennon 2000
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'One dave she woll go too farther, and I woll leaf her' he said to his fave rave horse.
A Spaniard In The Works Lennon, John, 1940-1980 1965
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At their comming they found the kinges doughters, sportinge themselues with sondrye pastimes: From thence they went to the house of Collatinus, where they founde Lucrece, not as the other before named, spending time in idlenes, but late in the night occupied and busie amonges her maydes in the middes of her house spinning of woll.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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Goates, the woll of thone will grow more rough and hard, and the heare of the other more tender and soft.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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Traytour come into oure seid Land we woll ... that ye doo Hym and Theym to be arrested ...
Charles the Bold Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477 Ruth Putnam
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