name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
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Standard Lemma guide
thole
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /θəʊl/
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Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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General-American: /θoʊl/
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rhymes with -əʊl
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CMU ARPABET: TH OW1 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A pin in the side of a boat which acts as a fulcrum for the oars.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 3
A pin, or handle, of the snath (shaft) of a scythe.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: none provided
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noun
Meaning 4
A cupola, a dome, a rotunda; a tholus.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: architecture
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verb
Meaning 5
To suffer.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated, intransitive
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: ache, anguish, agonize, hurt, pain, passion, suffer, thole, throe, wark, wring
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 6
To endure, to put up with, to tolerate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northern-England, Northern-Ireland, Scotland, transitive
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: brook, live with, abear, abide, aby, accept, allow, bear, bide, dree, endure, forbear, go along with, pass, pocket, pouch, put up with, stand, stick, stomach, suffer, swallow, take, take sitting down, thole, tolerate, undergang, undergo
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 7
a holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: peg, pin, tholepin, rowlock, oarlock
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: holder
History
Etymology
From Middle English thō̆le (“a peg”), from Old English þol, þoll (“oar-pin, rowlock; thole”), from Proto-West Germanic *þoll, from Proto-Germanic *þullaz, *þullō (“beam; thole”), from Proto-Indo-European *tūl-, *twel- (“bush; sphere”). The word is cognate with Danish told (“thole”), Dutch dol (“thole; oarlock”), Low German Doll (“thole; oarlock”).
Anglicization of Latin tholus (“cupola, dome, rotunda”), from Ancient Greek θόλος (thólos, “dome, vault”), further etymology uncertain but possibly cognate with θᾰ́λᾰμος (thắlămos, “bedroom; inner chamber”) and/or English dale. Doublet of tholus and tholos.
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.
Across languages
Translations
19 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Albanian: spicë — pin for oars
- Catalan: escàlem — pin for oars
- Danish: told — pin for oars
- Danish: åretold — pin for oars
- Dutch: dol — pin for oars
- Faroese: tollur — pin for oars
- Finnish: hankaintappi — pin for oars
- French: tolet — pin for oars
- German: Dolle — pin for oars
- Irish: cnoga — pin for oars
- Italian: scalmo — pin for oars
- Latin: scalmus — pin for oars
- Norwegian Bokmål: tollepinne — pin for oars
- Portuguese: tolete — pin for oars
- Spanish: tolete — pin for oars
- Spanish: escálamo — pin for oars
- Swedish: tullapinne — pin for oars
- Finnish: kädensija — pin of the snath of a scythe
- Finnish: tappi — pin of the snath of a scythe