thole

Meanings

Verb

• To suffer.
• To endure, to put up with, to tolerate.

Noun

• The ability to bear or endure something; endurance, patience.
• A pin in the side of a boat which acts as a fulcrum for the oars.
• A pin, or handle, of the snath (shaft) of a scythe.
• A cupola, a dome, a rotunda; a tholus.

Related

Similar words

• oarlock, rowlock, tholepin
• nib

Origin

• From Middle English thole, from tholen, þolien, from Old English þolian, from Proto-Germanic *þulāną ("to suffer"), from Proto-Indo-European *telh₂- ("to bear, suffer; to support"), compare tåle.
• From Middle English thole ("a peg"), from Old English þol, þoll, from Proto-Germanic *þullaz, *þullō, from Proto-Indo-European *tūl-, *twel-. The word is cognate with Danish toll ("thole"), Dutch dol ("thole"), German Dolle ("oar-lock, thole").
• Anglicization of Latin tholus ("cupola, dome, rotunda"), from Ancient Greek θόλος ("dome, vault"), further etymology uncertain but possibly cognate with θᾰ́λᾰμος.