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- 1. endure (something) without complaint or resistance; tolerate: archaic Scottish "if there's one thing I can't thole it's a lie"
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Thole can be a verb meaning to endure or a noun meaning a pin or peg. Learn about its etymology, history, and usage with examples and related words.
Thole can be a noun meaning a pin in a rowing boat, or a verb meaning to suffer or endure. Learn the origin, pronunciation and usage of thole with examples from literature and dictionaries.
thole in British English. (θəʊl ) or tholepin (ˈθəʊlˌpɪn ) noun. a wooden pin or one of a pair, set upright in the gunwales of a rowing boat to serve as a fulcrum in rowing. Collins English Dictionary.
Thole is a noun that means a wooden pin in a rowing boat or a verb that means to bear or suffer. Learn more about its origin, usage and synonyms from various sources.
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(Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /θəʊl/(General American) IPA(key): /θoʊl/Rhymes: -əʊlFrom Middle English thōle, from tholen, tholien, from Old English þolian, from Proto-West Germanic *þolēn, from Proto-Germanic *þulāną (“to suffer”), from Proto-Indo-European *telh₂- (“to bear, suffer; to support”), compare Norwegian Bokmål tåle.
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 toll (“thole”), Dutch dol (“thole; oarlock”), Low German Doll (“thole; oarlock”).
Anglicization of Latin tholus (“cupola, dome, rotunda”), from Ancient Greek θόλος (thólos, “dome, vault”), further etymology uncertain but possibly cognate with θᾰ́λᾰμος (thálamos, “bedroom; inner chamber”) and/or English dale. Doublet of tholus and tholos.
Thole has three meanings in English: to suffer, to endure, or to tolerate; a pin in a boat or a scythe; or a cupola or a dome. Learn the etymology, pronunciation, synonyms, and translations of thole.
Thole is a noun that means a pin in the side of a boat, or a verb that means to endure or suffer. Learn the origin, synonyms, and examples of thole from various sources.
Definitions of thole. noun. a holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing. synonyms: oarlock, peg, pin, rowlock, tholepin. see more.
