Cabbage.
"After mowing the field, we spent all afternoon building a tall cole of hay against the barn wall to keep it dry."
A stack or stook of hay.
"The chef added finely shredded cole to the salad for extra crunch."
Usage: Cole is an archaic term for a stack or stook of hay and is rarely used in modern English; instead, use the standard word "haystack." You will mostly encounter cole in historical texts or specific regional dialects rather than everyday conversation.
A diminutive of the male given name Nicholas.
"The teacher called out to Cole, who was actually just a shorter version of his friend Nicholas's nickname."
The word "cole" comes from the Old English cawel, which was borrowed early on from the Latin caulis meaning cabbage. It traveled into Middle English as cole before eventually evolving into its modern form.