/θəʊl/, /θoʊl/
OriginFrom 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.
- dated, intransitiveTo suffer.
“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.”
“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.”
- Northern-England, Northern-Ireland, Scotland, transitiveTo endure, to put up with, to tolerate.
“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 F”
“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 he”
“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; […]”
- A pin in the side of a boat which acts as a fulcrum for the oars.
“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, [...]”
“The oars squeaked against the tholes, the blades dipped with a steady beat, and the sun beat down: the boat crept across the sea.”
- A pin, or handle, of the snath (shaft) of a scythe.
“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 p”
“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 ”
- A cupola, a dome, a rotunda; a tholus.
“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 hemisph”
Formstholes(present, singular, third-person) · tholing(participle, present) · tholed(participle, past) · tholed(past) · tholes(plural) · thowel(alternative) · thowl(alternative) · Tholes(plural)