thole
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thole¹
- /θəʊl/ UK
- /θoʊl/ US
Rhymes with -əʊl
Where it comes from
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.
verb tholes · tholing · tholed
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To 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.
Similar: ache, anguish, agonize, hurt, pain, passion, suffer, thole, throe, wark, wring
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To 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 Fire and Water there.
Similar: brook, live with, abear, abide, aby, accept, allow, bear, bide, dree, endure, forbear
thole²
- /θəʊl/ UK
- /θoʊl/ US
Rhymes with -əʊl
Where it comes from
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 told (“thole”), Dutch dol (“thole; oarlock”), Low German Doll (“thole; oarlock”).
noun tholes · thowel · thowl
- 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, [...]
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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 point where they are joined, and also in such a manner as to equalize the labor between the right and
Similar: nib
thole³
- /θəʊl/ UK
- /θoʊl/ US
Rhymes with -əʊl
Where it comes from
Anglicization of Latin tholus (“cupola, dome, rotunda”), from Ancient Greek θόλος (thólos, “dome, vault”), further etymology uncertain but possibly cognate with θᾰ́λᾰμος (thắlămos, “bedroom; inner chamber”) and/or English dale. Doublet of tholus and tholos.
noun tholes
- 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 hemisphere) made in imitation of some system of the heaven, and with sapphire-coloured stones, […] and from
Thole⁴
proper noun Tholes
- A surname.
Translations
Talk about this word "thole." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/thole. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. thole. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/thole "thole." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/thole.Cite this
@misc{thole_2026,
title = {thole},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/thole},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
