thole UK /θəʊl/US /θoʊl/noun 3verb 2forms 3 noun3 •A pin in the side of a boat which acts as a fulcrum for the oars.Swiftly they glided away, like the shade of a cloud on the prairie. / After the sound of their oars on the tholes had died in the distance, / As from a magic trance the sleepers awoke, [...] — 1847 •A pin, or handle, of the snath (shaft) of a scythe. •A cupola, a dome, a rotunda; a tholus. verb2 •(Scotland, Northern-England) To endure, to put up with, to tolerate.But then they heard an awful scream that made them leap to their feet, it was as though mother were being torn and torn in the teeth of beasts and couldn't thole it longer; […] — 1932 •(old-fashioned) To suffer.Seventy beds keeps he there teeming mothers are wont that they lie for to thole and bring forth bairns hale so God’s angel to Mary quoth. — 1922 formstholed · tholing · tholes
