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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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... had played false to her mistress again—" but the threat was never formulated. There was a chink and click of a pair of oars moving on their thole-pins. For an instant a skiff was visible at the foot of the embankment; two occupants were in it. The boat disappeared under the friendly cover of the protecting sea-wall of the lower terrace. There was a little ...
— A Friend of Caesar - A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. • William Stearns Davis
... and broken banes Are weel as flesh and banes can be. She beats the taeds that live in stanes, An' fatten in vacuity! They die when they're exposed to air— They canna thole the atmosphere; But her!—expose her onywhere— She ...
— The Book of Humorous Verse • Various
... birds sang. For the British moved, not as once upon Lake George startling the echoes with drums and military bands, but so quietly that at half a mile's distance only the faint murmur of splashing oars and creaking thole-pins reached the ears ...
— Fort Amity • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... long sweeps were manned amidship, with two sturdy fellows to tug at each; and the quiet evening air led through the soft rehearsal of the water to its banks the creak of tough ash thole-pins, and the groan of gunwale, and the splash of oars, and even a sound of human staple, such as is accepted by the civilized world ...
— Springhaven - A Tale of the Great War • R. D. Blackmore
... rose, but instead of securing her retreat, approached him gently and stood by his side. "My lord," she said, "I canna thole to see a man in tribble. Women's born till 't, an' they tak it an' are thankfu'; but a man never gies in till 't, an' sae it comes harder upo' him nor upo' them. Hear me, my lord: gien there be a man upo' this earth wha wad shield a woman, ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Vol. XV., No. 85. January, 1875. • Various


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