Obs. Also 4 cole. [ME., a. OF. colee blow, stroke, prop. blow on the neck, in It. collāta, f. L. coll-um neck.] A blow, stroke; esp. the stroke with the flat of a sword given in dubbing a knight; = ACCOLADE.
1375. Barbour, Bruce, VII. 623. Clyffurd and wauss [= Vaux] maid a melle Quhar cliffurd raucht him a cole.
c. 1430. Pilgr. Lyf Manhode, IV. xxx. (1869), 193. A knyght oweth wel to suffre colee or he entre in to stour.
c. 1450. Mirour Saluacioun, 4117. Crist toke the ordre of knyght with the colee certayne.
