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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A thole pin.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To bear; undergo; sustain; put up with; stand.
  2. To experience; feel; suffer.
  3. To tolerate; permit; allow.
  4. To admit of; afford.
  5. To give freely.
  6. To endure grief, pain, misfortune, etc.; suffer.
  7. To be patient or tolerant; bear (with); be indulgent.
  8. To wait; stay; remain.
  9. n. Patience; endurance; tolerance.
  10. n. A pin inserted in the gunwale of a boat, or in a similar position, to act as a fulcrum for the oar in rowing. The oar is sometimes secured to the thole by a loop of cordage; but more frequently there are two pins between which the oar plays, in which case the thole is properly the pin against which the oar presses when the stroke is made. It is common, however, to speak of the two together as the tholes. Also called thole-pin.
  11. n. The pin or handle of a scythe-snath.
  12. n. A cart-pin.
  13. n. In architecture: Same as tholus; sometimes, a vaulted niche, or recess in a temple, where votive offerings were suspended.
  14. n. The scutcheon or knot at the center of a timber vault.

Wiktionary

  1. v. intransitive To suffer.
  2. v. transitive, Northern England To endure, to tolerate, to put up with.
  3. n. a pin in the side of a boat which acts as a fulcrum for the oars

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A wooden or metal pin, set in the gunwale of a boat, to serve as a fulcrum for the oar in rowing.
  2. n. The pin, or handle, of a scythe snath.
  3. v. Obs. or Scot. To bear; to endure; to undergo.
  4. v. Prov. Eng. & Scot. To wait.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English, from Old English þol ("thole, oar-pin"), from Proto-Germanic *þullaz, *þullō (“thole, beam”), from Proto-Indo-European *tūl-, *twel- (“sphere, bush”). Cognate with Dutch dol ("thole"), German Dolle ("oar-lock, thole"), Danish toll ("thole"). Extra-Germanic cognates include Albanian thel ("a big nail, a clapper"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English tholle, thole pin, from Old English thol. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “So that, although we may with fome degree of propriety adopt the idea of thole hif - tarian«, who tells us, that the king was taller than the genera -”

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  • “… this is good … i like the idea of thole starting the season in Triple-A, where he can work on catching big-league quality pitching, under the tutelage of Chris Coste … the question now is, what happens to Omir Santos … will he or Shawn Riggans end up being traded … and, if so, to whom and for what …”

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  • “Finally. gaustad sh! thole, meaning the entire city of Buffalo, not your little neighborhood.”

    Buffalo Rising

  • “UN International Sh! thole of the year, 40 years running.”

    Cheeseburger Gothic » Not so lazy Sunday

  • “Shut your lying sh! thole and work with our president!”

    DeMint blasts Obama's 'false promises'

  • “In 100 years, the entire territory of Jew-Free Palestine will be the same kind of s – thole that Gaza is today.”

    Matthew Yglesias » Time Machine

  • “After the federal Tory cabinet minister swore at Charlottetown airport security personnel and said they’d cause her to be “stuck in this s–thole,” an anonymous resident got revenge for the city by publicizing her outburst in a letter, forcing her to apologize.”

    Newsmakers: Feuds - Newsmakers - Macleans.ca

  • “Then away they rowed, so hard and fast, that well-nigh the half of the keel slipped away from the ship, and so hard they laid on to the oars that thole and gunwale brake.”

    The Story of the Volsungs

  • “Ho! some of you catch up chance spars, break up the benches, or snatch the oar-blade from the thole, and beat out the brains of these our foreign foes.”

    Helen

  • “And round the thole-pins they fitted the oars, and in the ship they placed the mast and the well-made sails and the stores.”

    The Argonautica

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synonyms (5)

Words with the same meaning

  1. bear
  1. endure
  1. undergo
  1. wait
  1. rowlock

hypernyms (1)

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  1. holder

same context (20)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. belaying
  2. alocal
  3. quick-service
  4. patch-panel
  1. well-disguised
  2. pop-out
  3. little-frequented
  4. data-entry
  1. sup
  2. front-mounted
  3. single-point
  4. pine-needle
  1. safty
  2. pearl-studded
  3. fixator
  4. alinement
  1. live
  2. control-room
  3. lower-deck
  4. fully-equipped

rhymes (54)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Cole
  2. Dole
  3. Kohl
  4. Nicole
  5. Ole
  6. Pole
  7. Seoul
  8. Sol
  9. atoll
  10. bole
  1. boll
  2. bowl
  3. cajole
  4. coal
  5. cole
  6. console
  7. control
  8. decontrol
  9. dhole
  10. dole
  1. droll
  2. enroll
  3. extol
  4. foal
  5. goal
  6. hole
  7. knoll
  8. kohl
  9. mole
  10. nole
  1. noll
  2. ole
  3. parole
  4. patrol
  5. pistole
  6. pole
  7. poll
  8. rock-and-roll
  9. role
  10. roll
  1. scroll
  2. self-control
  3. skoal
  4. sol
  5. sole
  6. soul
  7. sowle
  8. stole
  9. stroll
  10. tole
  1. toll
  2. troll
  3. viole
  4. whole

reverse dictionary (6)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. oar-peg
  1. thoel
  1. thole pin
  1. pin
  1. thowel
  1. thole

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  • yarb "...those Stalinist crimes imputed to you by your most ardent admirers and which the intelligently decent have NEVER been able to thole."

    - Alasdair gray, 1982, Janine. Nov 26, 2011

  • glenhaven In Nova Scotia the wooden pins used as oarlocks in dories and mackerel flats are set into the tholes and are pronounced "tullpins". Feb 16, 2011

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