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Definition thole

Etymology 1

From Middle English th?le, from tholen, tholien (“to be made to undergo a penalty; to suffer; to experience (something unpleasant); to bear, endure, put up with; to allow, permit”), from Old English þolian (“to endure, suffer, undergo; to thole”), from Proto-Germanic *þuljan? (“to suffer”), from Proto-Indo-European *telh?- (“to bear, suffer; to support”). The word is cognate with Danish tåle (“to tolerate”), Middle Low German d?len (“to endure”), Middle High German doln (“to allow, bear, suffer”), Latin toll? (“to cancel, lift off, remove”), toler? (“to bear, endure”), Norwegian Bokmål tåle (“to tolerate”), Norwegian Nynorsk tola (“to tolerate”), Swedish tåla (“to tolerate”). It is also related to English thild.

Verb

thole (third-person singular simple present tholes, present participle tholing, simple past and past participle tholed)

  1. (intransitive, dated) To suffer.
  2. (transitive, now Northern England, Northern Ireland, Scotland) To endure, to put up with, to tolerate.
Noun

thole (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete, rare or regional) The ability to bear or endure something; endurance, patience.

Etymology 2

From Middle English th??le (“a peg”), from Old English þol, þoll (“oar-pin, rowlock; thole”), from Proto-Germanic *þullaz, *þull? (“beam; thole”), from Proto-Indo-European *t?l-, *twel- (“bush; sphere”). The word is cognate with Danish toll (“thole”), Dutch dol (“thole”), German Dolle (“oar-lock, thole”).

Noun

thole (plural tholes)

  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.

Etymology 3

Anglicization of Latin tholus (“cupola, dome, rotunda”), from Ancient Greek ????? (thólos, “dome, vault”), further etymology uncertain but possibly cognate with ???????? (thálamos, “bedroom; inner chamber”).

Noun

thole (plural tholes)

  1. (architecture) A cupola, a dome, a rotunda; a tholus.

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