Thole

Definition: Thole

Thole

Noun

1. A holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing.

Date "thole" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1886. (references)

Synonyms: Thole

Synonyms: oarlock (n), peg (n), pin (n), rowlock (n), tholepin (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Feeling	Bear, suffer, support, sustain, endure, thole, aby; abide; (be composed); experience; (meet with); taste, prove; labor under, smart under; bear the brunt of, brave, stand.
Support	Trunnion, pivot, rowlock; peg; (pendency); tiebeam; (fastening); thole pin.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Thole

English words defined with "thole": Thole pin, Tholed, Tholing, Thowl. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Karel Thole (reference) Karel Thole : mosaico (reference) Visionen des Unwirklichen : die phantastischen Bilder des Karel Thole (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Thole" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Thole" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	4	175,879

The following table summarizes the usage of "thole" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Thole	Last name	1,000	15,323
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

Expression using "thole": Thole pin. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "thole": thole-pin.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "thole"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		hallkë (cog, hanger, link, member, ring, shackle). (various references)

Arabic		‏حكمة المجذاف. (various references)

Bulgarian		ключ за гребло на лодка (tholepin). (various references)

Danish		aaretold (boat crutchs, rowlocks, thole pins). (various references)

Dutch		dollen (boat crutchs, rowlocks, thole pins). (various references)

French		tolet. (various references)

German		riemenauflage, dolle (oarlock, rowlock). (various references)

Greek		σκαλμόσ λέμβου (tholepin). (various references)

Hungarian		csapszeg (bolt, joint-pin, mortise bolt, thole-pin). (various references)

Indonesian		kalas (thole-strap for an oar). (various references)

Italian		scalmi (boat crutchs, rowlocks, thole pins). (various references)

Pig Latin		olethay

Portuguese		tolete (oarsman, tholepin), cavilha (axle pin, bolt, cotter, dowel, forelock, gudgeon, key, kingpin, peg, Pike, pin, pintle, prevention, Spike, tenon). (various references)

Romanian		cui de furchet (thole-pin). (various references)

Russian		уключина (rowlock, tholepin). (various references)

Scottish		urcag (thole pin. Cf. àrcan). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		trpeti (abide, brook, do with, endure, put up, put up with, stand, suffer). (various references)

Spanish		escálamo (poppet, rowlock, tholepin). (various references)

Thai		หลักหรือหมุดยึดกรรเชียงที่กราบเรือ. (various references)

Turkish		kabul etmek (accede, accept, acknowledge, acquiesce, admit, adopt, affiliate, agree, allow, approve, assent, avow oneself, be sold on, certify, consent, enfranchise, enrol, fall in with, Favor, favour, go along with, grant, have, honor, honour, own, receive, recognize, regard as, say yes, settle for, sustain, take, take in, turn thumbs up on, witness), dayanmak (abut, be based on, be predicated on, bear up, bear up against, bear with, Brook, consist, endure, found, go on, ground, hang, hang on, hinge on, hold, hold on, hold one's own, hold out, hold up, last, lean, lean upon, offer resistance, osculate, put up with, rely on, rely upon, repose, repose on, resist, rest, rest against, root in, stand, stand on, stand the racket, stand up, stand upon, stay, stick, stick it, stick out, survive, sweat out, take, take it, tolerate, trace, wear, withstand), ıskarmoz (oarlock, rowlock, snoek, thole-pin). (various references)

Ukranian		кочет (boat-crutch, oarlock, rowlock, thole-pin), гачок (crotch, detent, thole-pin), витерплювати (suffer), миритися (make peace). (various references)

Vietnamese		cọc chèo (oar-lock, rowlock, thole-pin). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "thole": tholed, tholeiite, tholeiites, tholeiitic, tholepin, tholepins, tholes. (additional references)
	Words ending with "thole": anethole, bolthole, knothole, pesthole, porthole, posthole, pothole, rathole. (additional references)
	Words containing "thole": anetholes, boltholes, knotholes, pestholes, portholes, postholes, potholed, potholes, ratholes. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "thole" (pronounced thō"l)
2	-ō" l	bole, Boll, bowl, cajole, coal, Cole, control, decontrol, dhole, dole, droll, enroll, espanol, extol, foal, goal, hole, knoll, Kohl, mole, ole, parole, patrol, pistole, pole, poll, role, roll, scroll, skoal, sole, soul, stole, stroll, tole, toll, troll, whole.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: helot, hotel.
	Words within the letters "e-h-l-o-t"
	-1 letter: helo, hole, holt, loth, tole.
	-2 letters: eth, het, hoe, hot, let, lot, ole, tel, the, tho, toe.
	-3 letters: eh, el, et, he, ho, lo, oe, oh, to.
	Words containing the letters "e-h-l-o-t"
	+1 letter: clothe, eolith, helots, hostel, hotels, howlet, loathe, tholed, tholes.
	+2 letters: anethol, brothel, cholate, cholent, chortle, clothed, clothes, eoliths, ethanol, ethoxyl, helotry, holiest, holster, hooklet, hoplite, hostels, hostile, hostler, hotline, howlets, lithoed, loathed, loather, loathes, menthol, neolith, pothole, rathole, taphole, theelol, theolog, toehold, whortle.
	+3 letters: aerolith, anethole, anethols, apholate, beclothe, blotched, blotches, bolthead, bolthole, brothels, catechol, chelator, chlorate, chlorite, cholates, cholents, chortled, chortler, chortles, clothier, eolithic, eschalot, ethanols, ethology, ethoxyls, fleshpot, halftone, heelpost, helicopt, heliport, helistop, helotage, helotism, holotype, holstein, holsters, holytide, honestly, hooklets, hoplites, hosteled, hosteler, hostelry, hostiles, hostlers, hoteldom, hotelier, hotelman, hotelmen, hotlines, isopleth, knothole, lekythoi, lekythos, loathers, lothsome, menthols, methanol, methoxyl, motherly, mothlike, neoliths, oothecal, pesthole, phenetol, plethora, porthole, posthole, potholed, potholes, potlache, ratholes, reclothe, regolith, rhyolite, selcouth, shoalest, tapholes, telethon, theelols, theologs, theology, thiazole, tholepin, thowless, throstle, throttle, toeholds, toolhead, toolshed, trochlea, unclothe, whortles, xenolith.
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