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    thole
    /θəʊl/

    verb

    • 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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  2. 1. : either of a pair of pins set in the gunwale of a boat to hold an oar in place. 2. : peg, pin. Did you know? The Long History of Thole. Thole has a long history in the English language.

  3. Thole definition: a pin, or either of two pins, inserted into a gunwale to provide a fulcrum for an oar.. See examples of THOLE used in a sentence.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. thole isn’t in the Cambridge Dictionary yet. You can help! The one who has will feel that, as a human being, he has not tholed his assize and is out for a probation period.

  7. Noun. Singular: thole. Plural: tholes.

  8. 1. thole - a holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing. oarlock, rowlock, tholepin, peg, pin. dinghy, dory, rowboat - a small boat of shallow draft with cross thwarts for seats and rowlocks for oars with which it is propelled.

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  11. Jun 2, 2024 · A person using the scythe grasps the tholes to swing the tool. From Middle English thō̆le (“a peg”), from Old English þol, þoll (“oar-pin, rowlock; thole”), [3] from Proto-West Germanic *þoll, from Proto-Germanic *þullaz, *þullō (“beam; thole”), from Proto-Indo-European *tūl-, *twel- (“bush; sphere”).