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thone | thole |

As an adjective thone

is (dialectal) damp; moist; wet; soft from dampness.

As a verb thole is

to suffer.

As a noun thole is

a pin in the side of a boat which acts as a fulcrum for the oars.

thone

English

Alternative forms

* * (South Lancashire)

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • (dialectal) damp; moist; wet; soft from dampness.

    • Derived terms

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    thole

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) tholen, .

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To suffer.
  • * 14th c , '', 1840, Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (editors), ''The Works of the English Poets from Chaucer to Cowper , Volume 1, page 56,
    • "Heit scot, heit, brok, what, spare ye for the stones? / The fend (quod he) you fecche, body and bones, / As ferforthly as ever ye were foled, / So mochel wo, as I have with you tholed . / The devil have al, bothe hors, and cart, and hay.”
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1922 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=(James Joyce) , title=Ulysses , chapter= , url= , genre= , publisher= , isbn= , page= , passage=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. }}
  • To endure, to tolerate, to put up with.
  • *1932 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Sunset Song'', Polygon 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), p. 44:
  • *: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 […].
  • *1955 , (Robin Jenkins), The Cone-Gatherers , Canongate 2012, p. 107:
  • *: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.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl), from (etyl) .

    Alternative forms

    * thowel * thowl

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a pin in the side of a boat which acts as a fulcrum for the oars
    • (Longfellow)
  • :* 1973': The oars squeaked against the '''tholes , the blades dipped with a steady beat, and the sun beat down: the boat crept across the sea. — Patrick O'Brian, ''HMS Surprise
  • The pin, or handle, of a scythe snath.

    • Anagrams

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