thole
noun
a pin, or either of two pins, inserted into a gunwale to provide a fulcrum for an oar.
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
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No, and I am thinking nothing worse can come to the little mistress than the sorrow she is tholing now.
From A Knight of the Nets by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr