▪ I. † goll Obs.
Also 6–7 gol(e. Cf. golly n.
[Of obscure origin. Freq. in 17th c. dramatists.]
A hand.
| a 1586 Sidney Arcadia ii. (1622) 154 But Pamela pleasantly persisting to haue Fortune their iudge, they set hands, and Mopsa..put to her golden gols among them, and Fortune (that saw not the colour of them) gaue her the preheminence. 1601 B. Jonson Poetaster v. iii, Make 'em hold up their Spread Golls [in taking an oath]. 1632 Massinger City Madam iv. i, All the gamsters are Ambitious to shake the golden golls Of worshipfull Mr. Luke. 1650 Bulwer Anthropomet. 165 The Egyptian women love golden Gols. 1651 Randolph, etc. Hey for Honesty i. ii. Wks. (1875) 391 God of wealth!.. O, let me kiss thy silver golls. 1675 C. Cotton Scoffer Scoft 58 He [Vulcan] comes with his dirty golls [rime-wd. coals]. 1690 Dryden Amphitryon ii. i, What an Arm and Fist he has..and Gols and Knuckle-bones of a very Butcher. |
▪ II. goll
var. of gull, throat.