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thole

verb
/θəʊl/UK/θoʊl/US

Etymology

From Middle English thō̆le (“a peg”), from Old English þol, þoll (“oar-pin, rowlock; thole”), from Proto-West Germanic *þoll, from Proto-Germanic *þullaz, *þullō (“beam; thole”), from Proto-Indo-European *tūl-, *twel- (“bush; sphere”). The word is cognate with Danish told (“thole”), Dutch dol (“thole; oarlock”), Low German Doll (“thole; oarlock”).

  1. derived from *telh₂-✻ — “to bear, suffer; to support”
  2. inherited from *þulāną✻ — “to suffer”
  3. inherited from *þolēn✻
  4. inherited from þolian
  5. inherited from thole

Definitions

  1. To suffer.

    • Seventy beds keeps he there teeming mothers are wont that they lie for to thole and bring forth bairns hale so God’s angel to Mary quoth.
    • That remark of Edith Van Tromp's, to the effect that the illusions would all be swept away, had its confirmation before we had tholed through the first week of our island captivity.

  2. To endure, to put up with, to tolerate.

    • Nor was long Poſſeſſion in molendino regio, of receiving Multures for all Corns of a Barony promiſcuouſly without exception of Teind, found to bring the Teind under a Thirlage, Except ſuch as tholed Fire and Water there.
    • But then they heard an awful scream that made them leap to their feet, it was as though mother were being torn and torn in the teeth of beasts and couldn't thole it longer; […]

  3. A pin in the side of a boat which acts as a fulcrum for the oars.

    • Swiftly they glided away, like the shade of a cloud on the prairie. / After the sound of their oars on the tholes had died in the distance, / As from a magic trance the sleepers awoke, [...]
    • The oars squeaked against the tholes, the blades dipped with a steady beat, and the sun beat down: the boat crept across the sea.
  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. A pin, or handle, of the snath (shaft) of a scythe.

    2. A cupola, a dome, a rotunda

      A cupola, a dome, a rotunda; a tholus.

    3. A surname.

The neighborhood

Derived

tholance, tholing, tholepin

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA