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Meanings of thole in English

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piu

A holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing.

piu
Usage of thole in English
1
If I get help 'from beyond,' I can thole the lash, Christina.
A Knight of the Nets
2
The sculls bend like wands, the rowlocks creak, the thole-pins crack.
The Red Man's Revenge: A Tale of The Red River Flood
3
They would never thole a new master, they said, and fully believed it.
Gudrid the Fair / A Tale of the Discovery of America
4
Lasses ought to sit still and thole wrang, until He undertakes their case.
A Daughter of Fife
5
Figures in the scows stirred, and sweeps thudded against thole-pins.
The Gun-Brand
6
One is shorter than the other, each having a thole.
A Walk from London to John O'Groat's / With Notes by the Way
7
Remember, he that has gude crops may thole some thistles.
The Shadow of a Crime: A Cumbrian Romance
8
Maybe you should think about those immigration restrictions for s**thole countries? he quipped.
News.com.au
9
But it had snapped both the thole-pins short off in their sockets and was useless.
Hetty Wesley
10
She lowered it quietly, stowed it, found and inserted the thole-pins, and shipped the paddles.
Major Vigoureux
11
No Scottish lad ever forgets the twenty-third Psalm, especially those who canna thole the paraphrases.
Tommy
12
There was a chink and click of a pair of oars moving on their thole-pins.
A Friend of Cæsar: A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Tim...
13
The oarsman could not see even the thole pins.
The Blue Lagoon
14
He simply cannot thole her to give look or word to any one but himself.
A Knight of the Nets
15
I grant you that's the hardest thing to thole.
Salute to Adventurers
16
I can thole a fair and square stan up fecht, but yon's a coward trick.
Neville Trueman, the Pioneer Preacher : a tale of the war of 181...
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