Definition of "cole"

cole¹

/kəʊl/

noun
usually uncountable, plural coles
1. Cabbage.
2. Brassica; a plant of the Brassica genus, especially those of Brassica oleracea (rape and coleseed).

cole²

/kəʊl/

noun
plural coles
1. (Scotland) A stack or stook of hay.
  Quotations
  Father saw the happening from high in a park where the hay was cut and they set the swathes in coles, and he swore out Damn't to hell! and started to run […]
  1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 39