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Thole   /θoʊl/   Listen
noun
Thole  n.  (Written also thowel, and thowl)  
1.
A wooden or metal pin, set in the gunwale of a boat, to serve as a fulcrum for the oar in rowing.
2.
The pin, or handle, of a scythe snath.
Thole pin. Same as Thole.


verb
Thole  v. t.  (past & past part. tholed; pres. part. tholing)  To bear; to endure; to undergo. (Obs. or Scot.) "So much woe as I have with you tholed." "To thole the winter's steely dribble."


Thole  v. i.  To wait. (Prov. Eng. & Scot.)





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"Thole" Quotes from Famous Books



... "unless—But no; I don't believe it was imagination. I thought I heard a sound like the groaning of an oar against a thole pin, some distance off in that direction," with a flourish of my hand ...
— The First Mate - The Story of a Strange Cruise • Harry Collingwood
... house for his wife, that he has just lost the wife while he was saving the siller for the house. I have told him, and better told him to bring Sophy here; but nothing but having her all to himself will he hear tell of. It is pure, wicked selfishness in the lad! He simply cannot thole her to give look or word to any one but himself. Perfect scand'lous selfishness! That is where all ...
— A Knight of the Nets • Amelia E. Barr
... so they were. Such crowds came forward when the names of the volunteers were taken down. I will never forget the first day that I got my regimentals on, and when I looked myself in the glass, just to think I was a sodger who never in my life could thole the smell of powder! Oh, but it was grand! I sometimes fancied myself a general, and giving the word of command. Big Sam, who was a sergeant in the fencibles, and enough to have put five Frenchmen to flight any day of the year, ...
— The World's Greatest Books, Vol VI. • Various
... Signet, a dour man, with a mischancy temper. The kirk and kirkyard of Abbotrule, as still may be seen, lay near the laird's house—too near for the pleasure of one who had no love for the kirk and who could not thole ministers. Most unfortunately, too, the laird took a scunner at the minister of the parish of Abbotrule. It may be that he and the minister saw too much of each other, and only saw each other's faults, but of that no one now can tell. ...
— Stories of the Border Marches • John Lang and Jean Lang
... and shipped in the bows of the boats. The arm-chests were next handed in, which contain the cartridges and ammunition. The shot were put into the bottom of the boats; and so far they were all ready. The oars of the boats were fitted to pull with grummets upon iron thole-pins, that they might make little noise, and might swing fore and aft without falling overboard when the boats pulled alongside the privateer. A breaker or two (that is, small casks holding about seven gallons each) of water was put into each boat, and also the men's ...
— Peter Simple and The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2 • Frederick Marryat


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