thole
1 Americannoun
verb (used with object)
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tholes,
present (3rd person singular)
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tholed,
past participle, past
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tholing
present participle
verb
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dialect (tr) to put up with; bear
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an archaic word for suffer
noun
Other Word Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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tholesimple
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tholessimple
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have tholedperfect
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has tholedperfect
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am tholingprogressive
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are tholingprogressive
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is tholingprogressive
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have been tholingperfect progressive
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has been tholingperfect progressive
Past
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tholedsimple
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had tholedperfect
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was tholingprogressive
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were tholingprogressive
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had been tholingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of thole1
before 900; Middle English tholle, Old English tholl; cognate with Low German dolle, Old Norse thollr; akin to Old Norse thǫll young fir-tree
Origin of thole2
First recorded before 900; Middle English tholen, Old English tholian; cognate with Old Norse thola, Gothic thulan; akin to Greek tlênai “to bear, endure,” Latin tolerāre ( see tolerate)
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Along New England's shores, the squeak of a fisherman's oars against thole pins sounded lonely and clear in the fog of early morning, lately shrill with the cries of the vacationist and his young.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was with muffled oars against thole pins that New England fishermen ferried Washington across the Delaware .
From Time Magazine Archive
In truth, they seem far from natural thole mates, he a fearless blue-water Tarzan, she a slightly petrified British Jane.
From Time Magazine Archive
He fitted the rope lashings of the oars onto the thole pins and, leaning forward against the thrust of the blades in the water, he began to row out of the harbour in the dark.
From "The Old Man and The Sea" by Ernest Hemingway
And why there is no “thumpin’ against the thole pins” is because the oars are muffled.
From Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye by Mayne Reid
He drew her up far enough just to place her cable’s end at high-water mark; and having put the tholes in their proper places, he then walked across to the white flag.
From The History of Margaret Catchpole A Suffolk Girl by Richard Cobbold
Says Vidyapati: The Lord of lovers Sorely tholes the sight of Radha's loveliness.
From Vidy?pati: Bang?ya pad?bali; songs of the love of R?dh? and Krishna by Vidy?pati Th?kura
Thereat Thorgeir fell to rowing so hard that both the tholes were broken: then said he, "Row on, Grettir, while I mend the thole-pins."
From The Story of Grettir the Strong by William Morris
The oars were allowed to swing from the tholes, and the boat was left to glide slowly downwards, while in their smart orderly way her crew prepared for action.
From The Ocean Cat's Paw The Story of a Strange Cruise by W. S. (Walter S.) Stacey
Fortunately we pulled with tholes and pins, or the gunwale and planks of the boat would have been wrenched off, and we should have foundered.
From Peter Simple; and, The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2 by Frederick Marryat
During the next month he tholed the cold of that same punishment- cell; and during the next was in his old cell, but in chains, picking oakum.
From The Lord of the Sea by M. P. (Matthew Phipps) Shiel
For forty-year I’ve tholed them, all twice-borrowed, from dad and granddad, And rank, when I came to Krindlesyke, to find Life, the same jobs and same jests over and over.
From Krindlesyke by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
Dree out the inch when ye have tholed the span.
From The Proverbs of Scotland by Alexander Hislop
If it hadna been for the bairn," said Corp, "we would hae tholed wi' her, however queer she was; but wi' the bairn I tell you it's no mous.
From Tommy and Grizel by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
There was One tholed for me the lash and the buffet, and answer'd never a word.
From A Knight of the Nets by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
Thrice that night, my dreams being troubled, I awoke and stretched myself to see Billy pacing grimly in the moonlight between us and the gateway, tholing his penance.
From Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
I think I would not be tholing that either, my dear," cried he in a fierce voice, "but the lantern has to be lighted and the fire.
From The McBrides A Romance of Arran by John Sillars
"Margaret," said I, "are there none among the young sparks coming about the place that you could be tholing about ye?"
From The McBrides A Romance of Arran by John Sillars
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
Some indeed blamed her for not tholing her grief until her husband came back, but not a single heart suspected her of a liaison with her old lover.
From A Knight of the Nets by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
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