thole pin
thole
tholetransitive verb
tholed, thol′ingChiefly Brit., Now Dial. to suffer; endure; undergo
Origin of thole
Middle English tholen from Old English tholian from Indo-European base an unverified form tel-, to bear from source tolerateWebster's New World College Dictionary, Fifth Edition Copyright © 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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thole
noun
A thole pin.
Origin of thole
Middle English tholle from Old English thol ; see teuə- in Indo-European roots.THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Verb
(third-person singular simple present tholes, present participle tholing, simple past and past participle tholed)
Origin
From Middle English tholen, tholien, from Old English þolian (“to thole, endure, suffer, undergo"), from Proto-Germanic *þuljanÄ… (“to suffer"), from Proto-Indo-European *telhâ‚‚- (“to bear, support, suffer"). Cognate with Middle Low German dÅlen (“to endure"), Middle High German doln (“to bear, suffer, allow"), Danish tÃ¥le (“to tolerate"), Norwegian tola (“to tolerate"), Swedish tÃ¥la (“to tolerate"), Latin tollÅ (“to cancel, lift off, remove"), Latin tolerÅ (“to bear, endure") and Albanian ndal (“to stop, hold") from dal (“exit, leave; fig. to manage, succeed, endure").
Noun
(plural tholes)
Origin
From Middle English, from Old English þol (“thole, oar-pin"), from Proto-Germanic *þullaz, *þullÅ (“thole, beam"), from Proto-Indo-European *tÅ«l-, *twel- (“sphere, bush"). Cognate with Dutch dol (“thole"), German Dolle (“oar-lock, thole"), Danish toll (“thole"). Extra-Germanic cognates include Albanian thel (“a big nail, a clapper").
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