Definition of "vole"

vole¹

/ˈvəʊl/

noun
plural voles
1. Any of a large number of species of small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae of the family Cricetidae which are not lemmings or muskrats.

vole²

noun
plural voles
1. A deal in a card game, écarté, that draws all the tricks.
  Quotations
  Ladies, I'll venture for the vole.
  1731, Jonathan Swift, Verses on the Death of Dr Swift
  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?
  1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, Epilogue
verb
third-person singular simple present voles, present participle voling, simple past and past participle voled
1. (card games, intransitive) To win all the tricks by a vole.
  Quotations
  no lad shall chuck, or lady vole, But some excising Courtier will have toll.
  1717, Alexander Pope, “The Fourth Satire of Dr. John Donne”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […]