Definitions for voles

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voles vole

Spelling: [vohl]

IPA: /voʊl/

Voles is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 54 anagrams from letters in voles (elosv).

Definitions for voles

noun

1. any of several small mouselike or ratlike rodents of the genus Microtus and related genera, having short limbs and a short tail.
2. Cards. the winning by one player of all the tricks of a deal.

Idioms

1. go the vole, to venture everything on the chance of great rewards. to try one after another, as a variety of occupations:

Origin of voles

1795-1805; short for volemouse field mouse, perhaps Norwegian *vollmus, equivalent to voll field (cf. wold¹) + mus mouse

Examples for voles

Fascinated, the vole stayed awhile to look at the hovering hawk.

I have the vole and the king, said Croque, marking three points.

I should have said it in the French language, vole—and resented me.

For a long time the vole, not daring to move, remained in the shadow.

As he is the weaker, the vole is obliged to submit to this vexatious tax.

From the signs that were fresh the vole learned the story of field-life for the day.

Small as he was, and crouching as only a vole can crouch, there was no escape from contact with it.

With most diseases spread by rodents, the mouse or rat or vole is only an intermediary (a “host”) for fleas and lice and the like.

A reference to a contemporary animal game with a pun on the word "vole."

The extent of the molt line, if the vole was molting, was recorded.