thole
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English thōle, from tholen, tholien, from Old English þolian, from Proto-West Germanic *þolēn, from Proto-Germanic *þulāną (“to suffer”), from Proto-Indo-European *telh₂- (“to bear, suffer; to support”), compare Norwegian Bokmål tåle.
Inflected forms:
form: tholes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tholing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tholed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tholed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: tholes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: thowel
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: thowl
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To suffer.
pos: verb
tags: dated
intransitive
examples: 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.
That remark of Edith Van Tromp's, to the effect that the illusions would all be swept away, had its confirmation before we had tholed through the first week of our island captivity.
gloss: To endure, to put up with, to tolerate.
pos: verb
tags: Northern-England
Northern-Ireland
Scotland
transitive
examples: Nor was long Poſſeſſion in molendino regio, of receiving Multures for all Corns of a Barony promiſcuouſly without exception of Teind, found to bring the Teind under a Thirlage, Except ſuch as tholed Fire and Water there.
Before long Ailie was silent and white, while her mother rimed on about men and their ways. And then she could thole it no longer, but must go out and walk by the burn to cool her hot brow and calm her thoughts, while the witch indoors laughed to herself at her devices.
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; […]
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.
He knew what they had tholed,
the long times and troubles they'd come through
without a leader.
gloss: A pin in the side of a boat which acts as a fulcrum for the oars.
pos: noun
examples: Swiftly they glided away, like the shade of a cloud on the prairie. / After the sound of their oars on the tholes had died in the distance, / As from a magic trance the sleepers awoke, [...]
The oars squeaked against the tholes, the blades dipped with a steady beat, and the sun beat down: the boat crept across the sea.
gloss: A pin, or handle, of the snath (shaft) of a scythe.
pos: noun
examples: The nature of my invention consists in curving forward that portion of the scythe snath below the right nib or thole, to such an extent as to form an obtuse angle between the scythe and snath at the point where they are joined, and also in such a manner as to equalize the labor between the right and left hands; whereas, in snaths now in use, the greatest amount of labor falls upon the right arm.
For my own stature, which is five feet eight inches, I find that two feet six inches from the heel to the lower thole, just right, and the tholes should be eighteen inches apart. For smooth land, the scythe should be three feet nine inches' shorter for lodged clover and rough ground. The point should be set three feet five inches from the upper thole.
Related words: thoil
tholeburde
tholeburdness
tholemodely
tholemodeness
tholemod
tholemode
Derived words: tholance
tholing
tholepin
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