STOLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stole mean? 

• STOLE (noun)
  The noun STOLE has 1 sense:

1. a wide scarf worn about their shoulders by women

  Familiarity information: STOLE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STOLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A wide scarf worn about their shoulders by women

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("stole" is a kind of...):

scarf (a garment worn around the head or neck or shoulders for warmth or decoration)

 Context examples 

He called it "The Wine of Life," and the wine of it, that had stolen into his brain when he wrote it, stole into his brain now as he read it.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I stole back to the study, and began to read.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Holmes twitched my sleeve, and together we stole down the stair.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Holmes stole across and looked at it.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then I stole to my room, and sat waiting upon the side of my bed.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Agnes leaned upon his shoulder, and stole her arm about his neck.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He did not rob openly, but stole secretly and cunningly, out of respect for club and fang.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Still another time, he stole into the steerage, possessed himself of a loaded shot-gun, and was making a rush for the deck with it when caught by Kerfoot and disarmed.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

One day he had met me, and fell into talk about the ways of thieves, and how they could get rid of what they stole.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I will pledge my life that whoever stole my papers could only have come through the door.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)