Tholed vs Holed - What's the difference?
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(thole)
To suffer.
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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.
a pin in the side of a boat which acts as a fulcrum for the oars
:* 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.
(hole)
A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; an opening in or through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent; a fissure.
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*(Bible), 2 (w) xii.9:
*:The priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:the holes where eyes should be
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*:The blind walls were full of chinks and holes .
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*:Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill.
#An opening in a solid.
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(lb) In games.
#(lb) A subsurface standard-size hole, also called cup, hitting the ball into which is the object of play. Each hole, of which there are usually eighteen as the standard on a full course, is located on a prepared surface, called the green, of a particular type grass.
#(lb) The part of a game in which a player attempts to hit the ball into one of the holes.
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#(lb) The rear portion of the defensive team between the shortstop and the third baseman.
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#(lb) A square on the board, with some positional significance, that a player does not, and cannot in future, control with a friendly pawn.
#(lb) A card (also called a hole card ) dealt face down thus unknown to all but its holder; the status in which such a card is.
An excavation pit or trench.
(lb) A weakness, a flaw
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*2011 , - (We Are Young)
*:But between the drinks and subtle things / The holes in my apologies, you know /
(lb) A container or receptacle.
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(lb) In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged particle.
(lb) A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit.
(lb) An orifice, in particular the anus.
Solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment.
(lb) An undesirable place to live or visit; a hovel.
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(lb) Difficulty, in particular, debt.
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To make holes in (an object or surface).
(by extension) To destroy.
To go or get into a hole.
To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in.
To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball or golf ball.
(hele)
As verbs the difference between tholed and holed
is that tholed is (thole) while holed is (hole).tholed
English
Verb
(head)thole
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) tholen, .Verb
(en-verb)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.”
Etymology 2
From (etyl), from (etyl) .Alternative forms
* thowel * thowlNoun
(en noun)- (Longfellow)
Anagrams
* * ----holed
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
* *hole
English
(wikipedia hole)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* See also * (solitary confinement) administrative segregation, AdSeg, block (UK), cooler (UK), hotbox, lockdown, pound, SCU, security housing unit, SHU, special handling unitDerived terms
* ace in the hole * arsehole, asshole * black hole * bolthole * bullet hole * burn a hole in one's pocket * button hole * cakehole * countersunk hole * cubby hole * donut hole * dry hole * electron hole * fox-hole, fox hole, foxhole * glory hole * gnamma hole {{rel-mid3} * gunk-hole * hellhole * hole in one * hole-in-the-wall * hole punch * hole state * holey * in the hole * keyhole * know one's ass from a hole in the ground * loophole * man-hole, manhole * mouse-hole, mousehole * nineteenth hole * pesthole * pigeonhole * pilot hole * poophole * pothole * pritchel hole * rathole * sink hole * sound hole * toad-in-the-hole * top-hole * touch hole * watering hole * white hole * wonky holeVerb
(hol)- (Ben Jonson)
- to hole a post for the insertion of rails or bars