vole
noun
- Small omnivorous rodent
Wiktionary
noun
Etymology: Borrowed from French vole.
- A deal in a card game, écarté, that draws all the tricks.
“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?”
verb
Etymology: Borrowed from French vole.
- To win all the tricks by a vole.
“no lad shall chuck, or lady vole, But some excising Courtier will have toll.”