A wooden or metal pin, set in the gunwale of a boat, to serve as a fulcrum for the oar in rowing. Longfellow.
The pin, or handle, of a scythe snath. Thole pin. Same as Thole.
To bear; to endure; to undergo. [Obs. or Scot.] Gower. So much woe as I have with you tholed. Chaucer. To thole the winter's steely dribble. Burns.
To wait. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
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