different between thowl vs thole

English

Noun

thowl (plural thowls)

1. Alternative form of thowel

Anagrams

• lowth

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???l/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?o?l/
• Rhymes: -??l

Etymology 1

From Middle English th?le, from tholen, tholien, from Old English þolian, from Proto-Germanic *þul?n? (“to suffer”), from Proto-Indo-European *telh?- (“to bear, suffer; to support”), compare tåle.

Verb

thole (third-person singular simple present tholes, present participle tholing, simple past and past participle tholed)

1. (intransitive, dated) To suffer.
   • 1922, Francis Lynde, Pirates' Hope, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, page 115:

     That remark of Edith Van Tromp's, to the effect that the illusions would all be swept away, had its confirmation before we had tholed through the first week of our island captivity.

2. (transitive, now Northern England, Northern Ireland, Scotland) To endure, to put up with, to tolerate.

Synonyms

• (to suffer):
• (to endure): brook, live with; See also Thesaurus:tolerate

Derived terms

• tholance
• tholing (adjective, noun)

Related terms

Translations

Noun

thole (uncountable)

1. (obsolete, rare or regional) The ability to bear or endure something; endurance, patience.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English th??le (“a peg”), from Old English þol, þoll (“oar-pin, rowlock; thole”), from Proto-Germanic *þullaz, *þull? (“beam; thole”), from Proto-Indo-European *t?l-, *twel- (“bush; sphere”). The word is cognate with Danish toll (“thole”), Dutch dol (“thole”), German Dolle (“oar-lock, thole”).

Noun

thole (plural tholes)

1. A pin in the side of a boat which acts as a fulcrum for the oars.
2. A pin, or handle, of the snath (shaft) of a scythe.

Alternative forms

• thowel
• thowl

Synonyms

• (pin for oars): oarlock, rowlock, tholepin
• (pin of the snath of a scythe): nib

Derived terms

• tholepin

Translations

Etymology 3

Anglicization of Latin tholus (“cupola, dome, rotunda”), from Ancient Greek ????? (thólos, “dome, vault”), further etymology uncertain but possibly cognate with ???????? (thálamos, “bedroom; inner chamber”).

Noun

thole (plural tholes)

1. (architecture) A cupola, a dome, a rotunda; a tholus.

Related terms

• tholobate

Translations

References

Further reading

• “thole” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.

Anagrams

• Holte, helot, hetol, hotel, hôtel, lothe

Latin

Noun

thole

1. vocative singular of tholus

Middle English

Verb

thole

1. thole; suffer