Thole

Quick meaning: Thole is a verb meaning (intransitive, dated) To suffer.

Meaning

(intransitive, dated) To suffer.

More Meanings

1. (transitive, now Northern England, Northern Ireland, Scotland) To endure, to put up with, to tolerate.
2. A pin in the side of a boat which acts as a fulcrum for the oars.
3. A pin, or handle, of the snath (shaft) of a scythe.
4. (architecture) A cupola, a dome, a rotunda; a tholus.

Example Sentences

He knew what they had tholed, the long times and troubles they'd come through without a leader.

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.

While they were enjoying their meal and placidly tholing the cacophony from the wireless set, they saw the first of the Ardmore workers arrive in the café.

But then they heard an awful scream that made them leap to their feet, it was as though mother were being torn and torn in the teeth of beasts and couldn't thole it longer; […]

Word Forms

• tholes
• tholing
• tholed
• thowel
• thowl

Synonyms for thole

Depending on context, synonyms include oarlock, rowlock, nib, ache, anguish, agonize.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include peg, pin, oarlock, rowlock, throe, suffer.

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