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thole

Pronunciation: /θəʊl/

The English word “thole” has 5 meanings listed here.

verb

  1. To suffer.
  2. To endure, to put up with, to tolerate.

noun

  1. A pin in the side of a boat which acts as a fulcrum for the oars.
  2. A pin, or handle, of the snath (shaft) of a scythe.
  3. A cupola, a dome, a rotunda; a tholus.

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.

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