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Noun [English]

IPA: /θəʊl/ [Received-Pronunciation], /θoʊl/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-thole.wav Forms: tholes [plural]
Rhymes: -əʊl 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 toll (“thole”), Dutch dol (“thole; oarlock”), Low German Doll (“thole; oarlock”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|thole|thō̆le|a peg}} Middle English thō̆le (“a peg”), {{inh|en|ang|þol}} Old English þol, {{inh|en|gmw-pro|*þoll}} Proto-West Germanic *þoll, {{inh|en|gem-pro|*þullaz}} Proto-Germanic *þullaz, {{der|en|ine-pro|*tūl-}} Proto-Indo-European *tūl-, {{cog|da|toll|t=thole}} Danish toll (“thole”), {{cog|nl|dol|t=thole; oarlock}} Dutch dol (“thole; oarlock”), {{cog|nds|Doll|t=thole; oarlock}} Low German Doll (“thole; oarlock”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} thole (plural tholes)
  1. A pin in the side of a boat which acts as a fulcrum for the oars. Synonyms (pin for oars): oarlock, rowlock, tholepin Translations (pin for oars): spicë [feminine] (Albanian), escàlem [masculine] (Catalan), dol [masculine] (Dutch), tollur [masculine] (Faroese), hankaintappi (Finnish), tolet [masculine] (French), Dolle [feminine] (German), scalmo [masculine] (Italian), scalmus [masculine] (Latin), tollepinne [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), tolete [masculine] (Portuguese), tolete [masculine] (Spanish), escálamo [masculine] (Spanish), tullapinne [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-thole-en-noun-sinlYd33 Disambiguation of 'pin for oars': 61 39 Disambiguation of 'pin for oars': 61 39
  2. A pin, or handle, of the snath (shaft) of a scythe. Synonyms (pin of the snath of a scythe): nib Translations (pin of the snath of a scythe): kädensija (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-thole-en-noun-NA1g3O25 Categories (other): Entries with translation boxes, Terms with Albanian translations, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Faroese translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Latin translations, Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 30 70 Disambiguation of Terms with Albanian translations: 32 68 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 32 68 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 39 61 Disambiguation of Terms with Faroese translations: 32 68 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 29 71 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 34 66 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 35 65 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 39 61 Disambiguation of Terms with Latin translations: 39 61 Disambiguation of Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations: 31 69 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 30 70 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 41 59 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 29 71 Disambiguation of 'pin of the snath of a scythe': 12 88 Disambiguation of 'pin of the snath of a scythe': 8 92
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: thowel, thowl Derived forms: tholepin
Etymology number: 2

Noun [English]

IPA: /θəʊl/ [Received-Pronunciation], /θoʊl/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-thole.wav Forms: tholes [plural]
Rhymes: -əʊl Etymology: 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. Etymology templates: {{glossary|Anglicization}} Anglicization, {{bor|en|la|tholus||cupola, dome, rotunda}} Latin tholus (“cupola, dome, rotunda”), {{der|en|grc|θόλος||dome, vault}} Ancient Greek θόλος (thólos, “dome, vault”), {{m+|en|dale}} English dale, {{dbt|en|tholus|tholos}} Doublet of tholus and tholos Head templates: {{en-noun}} thole (plural tholes)
  1. (architecture) A cupola, a dome, a rotunda; a tholus. Categories (topical): Architecture, Nautical Related terms: tholobate
    Sense id: en-thole-en-noun-eB2AN3q~ Disambiguation of Nautical: 23 11 30 11 24 Topics: architecture
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 3

Verb [English]

IPA: /θəʊl/ [Received-Pronunciation], /θoʊl/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-thole.wav Forms: tholes [present, singular, third-person], tholing [participle, present], tholed [participle, past], tholed [past]
Rhymes: -əʊl Etymology: From 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. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*telh₂- (bear)}}, {{inh|en|enm|thole|thōle}} Middle English thōle, {{inh|en|ang|þolian}} Old English þolian, {{inh|en|gmw-pro|*þolēn}} Proto-West Germanic *þolēn, {{inh|en|gem-pro|*þulāną|t=to suffer}} Proto-Germanic *þulāną (“to suffer”), {{der|en|ine-pro|*telh₂-|t=to bear, suffer; to support}} Proto-Indo-European *telh₂- (“to bear, suffer; to support”), {{cog|nb|tåle}} Norwegian Bokmål tåle Head templates: {{en-verb}} thole (third-person singular simple present tholes, present participle tholing, simple past and past participle tholed)
  1. (intransitive, dated) To suffer. Tags: dated, intransitive
    Sense id: en-thole-en-verb-sNwAdEAL
  2. (transitive, now Northern England, Northern Ireland, Scotland) To endure, to put up with, to tolerate. Tags: Northern-England, Northern-Ireland, Scotland, transitive Synonyms (to endure): brook
    Sense id: en-thole-en-verb-3j09IG8O Categories (other): Northern England English, Northern Irish English, Scottish English, English entries with incorrect language header, Middle English links with redundant target parameters, Pages with 3 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 22 24 18 3 33 Disambiguation of Middle English links with redundant target parameters: 11 89 Disambiguation of Pages with 3 entries: 21 22 14 6 36 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 23 24 14 4 34 Disambiguation of 'to endure': 15 85
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: live with Derived forms: tholance, tholing [adjective, noun] Related terms: thoil, tholeburde [obsolete, rare], tholeburdness [obsolete], tholemodely [obsolete], tholemodeness [obsolete], tholemod, tholemode [obsolete]
Etymology number: 1

Noun [Latin]

Head templates: {{head|la|noun form}} thole
  1. vocative singular of tholus Tags: form-of, singular, vocative Form of: tholus
    Sense id: en-thole-la-noun-hCIX8wql Categories (other): Latin entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 3 entries, Pages with entries

Verb [Middle English]

Head templates: {{head|enm|verb}} thole
  1. thole; suffer
    Sense id: en-thole-enm-verb-tE0sIihy Categories (other): Middle English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 3 entries, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 14: Oxen of the Sun]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 368:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
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        {
          "ref": "1922, Francis Lynde, Pirates' Hope, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 115:",
          "text": "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.",
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        "(intransitive, dated) To suffer."
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          "ref": "1705, William Forbes, “Concerning the Burdens that Tiends are Liable to”, in A Treatise of Church-lands & Tithes, Edinburgh: Printed by the heirs and successors of Andrew Anderson [i.e., James Anderson], printer to the Queens Most Excellent Majesty; and to be sold at John Vallange's shop, on the north-side of the street, a little above the cross, →OCLC, page 345:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:",
          "text": "Before long Ailie was silent and white, while her mother rimed on about men and their ways. And then she could thole it no longer, but must go out and walk by the burn to cool her hot brow and calm her thoughts, while the witch indoors laughed to herself at her devices.",
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          "ref": "1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon [pseudonym; James Leslie Mitchell], “Ploughing”, in Sunset Song: A Novel (A Scots Quair; 1), London: Jarrolds, →OCLC; republished as Tom Crawford, editor, Sunset Song (Canongate Classics; 12), Edinburgh, New York, N.Y.: Canongate Books, 2008, →ISBN, page 34:",
          "text": "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; […]",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1955, Robin Jenkins, The Cone-gatherers, London: Macdonald, →OCLC; republished as The Cone-gatherers: A Haunting Story of Violence and Love, Edinburgh: Canongate Books, 2007, →ISBN, pages 86–87:",
          "text": "While they were enjoying their meal and placidly tholing the cacophony from the wireless set, they saw the first of the Ardmore workers arrive in the café.",
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          "_dis1": "15 85",
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          "word": "brook"
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      ],
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          "ref": "1847 November 1, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, chapter II, in Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie, Boston, Mass.: William D. Ticknor & Company, →OCLC, part II, page 101, lines 841–842:",
          "text": "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, [...]",
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          "word": "rowlock"
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        {
          "_dis1": "61 39",
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          "lang": "Albanian",
          "sense": "pin for oars",
          "tags": [
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          "_dis1": "61 39",
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          "sense": "pin for oars",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "escàlem"
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          "sense": "pin for oars",
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        {
          "_dis1": "61 39",
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          "word": "hankaintappi"
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          "sense": "pin for oars",
          "tags": [
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          "_dis1": "61 39",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "pin for oars",
          "tags": [
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          "tags": [
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          "sense": "pin for oars",
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          "ref": "1705, William Forbes, “Concerning the Burdens that Tiends are Liable to”, in A Treatise of Church-lands & Tithes, Edinburgh: Printed by the heirs and successors of Andrew Anderson [i.e., James Anderson], printer to the Queens Most Excellent Majesty; and to be sold at John Vallange's shop, on the north-side of the street, a little above the cross, →OCLC, page 345:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "Before long Ailie was silent and white, while her mother rimed on about men and their ways. And then she could thole it no longer, but must go out and walk by the burn to cool her hot brow and calm her thoughts, while the witch indoors laughed to herself at her devices.",
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          "text": "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; […]",
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          "text": "While they were enjoying their meal and placidly tholing the cacophony from the wireless set, they saw the first of the Ardmore workers arrive in the café.",
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          "ref": "1847 November 1, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, chapter II, in Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie, Boston, Mass.: William D. Ticknor & Company, →OCLC, part II, page 101, lines 841–842:",
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          "ref": "1850 May, “[List of American Patents which issued in November, 1849, with Exemplifications by Charles M. Keller, late Chief Examiner of Patents in the U.S. Patent Office.] 38. For an Improvement in Scythe Snaths; Luther Cole, Lafayette, Onondaga county, New York, November 20.”, in John F[ries] Frazer, editor, Journal of the Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts, volume XIX (Third Series; volume XLIX overall), number 5, Philadelphia, Pa.: Published by the Franklin Institute, at their hall, →OCLC, page 313:",
          "text": "The nature of my invention consists in curving forward that portion of the scythe snath below the right nib or thole, to such an extent as to form an obtuse angle between the scythe and snath at the point where they are joined, and also in such a manner as to equalize the labor between the right and left hands; whereas, in snaths now in use, the greatest amount of labor falls upon the right arm.",
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          "ref": "1870 July 9, Phinehas Field, “Mowing, and Things”, in Simon Brown, Stilman Fletcher, editors, The New England Farmer: Devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture, and Kindred Arts, volume IV (New Series), number 9, Boston, Mass.: R. P. Eaton & Co., publishers, office, 24 Merchants' Row, published September 1870, →OCLC, page 424, column 2:",
          "text": "For my own stature, which is five feet eight inches, I find that two feet six inches from the heel to the lower thole, just right, and the tholes should be eighteen inches apart. For smooth land, the scythe should be three feet nine inches' shorter for lodged clover and rough ground. The point should be set three feet five inches from the upper thole.",
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      "word": "thowl"
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      "code": "sq",
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      "sense": "pin for oars",
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      "word": "spicë"
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      "sense": "pin for oars",
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      "word": "tollur"
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      "word": "hankaintappi"
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      "code": "de",
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      "tags": [
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      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "pin for oars",
      "tags": [
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    },
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      "code": "la",
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      "tags": [
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      "word": "scalmus"
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      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
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      "word": "tollepinne"
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      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "pin for oars",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
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      "code": "es",
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      "code": "es",
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      "sense": "pin for oars",
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      "code": "sv",
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      "sense": "pin for oars",
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      ],
      "word": "tullapinne"
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "pin of the snath of a scythe",
      "word": "kädensija"
    }
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}

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          "ref": "1828, [Algernon Herbert], “Ba-bel”, in Nimrod: A Discourse on Certain Passages of History and Fable, volume I, London: Printed [by Thomas Davison] for Richard Priestley, →OCLC, page 206:",
          "text": "Philostratus relates that the king's house in Babylon had a roof of brass, which shone like lightning, and that in that house there was a chamber, whose ceiling was a thole (that is, a concave hemisphere) made in imitation of some system of the heaven, and with sapphire-coloured stones, […] and from the thole were suspended four golden doves, or iynges, who were called the Tongues of the Gods.",
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          "english": "Deep was the way, which is why the cart stood [still] / The carter smote, and strived as if he were mad / \"Gee up, Scot, gee up, Brok [the names of horses], why do you stop pulling for the stones? / \"The fiend,\" said he, \"fetch you, body and bones, / \"Thus far since you were foaled [born], / \"So much woe have I suffered due to you. / \"The devil have all, both horses, cart, and hay.\"",
          "ref": "1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Freres Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC, folio xliiii, recto, column 2:",
          "text": "Depe was the waie, for which the cart ſtode / This carter ſmote, & ſtriued as he were wode / Heit ſcot heit brok, what ſpare ye for yͤ ſtones / The fende q[uo]d he, you fetche body & bones, / As ferforth as euer ye were yfoled, / So moche wo as I haue for you tholed / The deuyl haue al, both horse, carte, & hay",
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}

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