thole
noun
a pin, or either of two pins, inserted into a gunwale to provide a fulcrum for an oar.
tholing
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present participleof thole.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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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
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
"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
So, conscience being a brave supporter, I abode in silence, though not without many queer and qualmish thoughts, and a pit-patting of the heart, not unco pleasant in the tholing.
From The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself by David Macbeth Moir
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
