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Tholepin

Definition: Tholepin

Tholepin

Noun

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

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Tholepin

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

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Modern Translations: Tholepin

Language Translations for "tholepin"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

kube (cupola, dome, ossuary, vault, vaulting). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

ключ за гребло на лодка (thole). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

σκαρμόσ (rowlock), σκαλμόσ λέμβου (thole). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

olepinthay

   

Portuguese

  

tolete (oarsman, thole). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

уключина (rowlock, thole). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

viljuška (fork, pitchfork). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

escálamo (poppet, rowlock, thole). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Tholepin

Derivations

Words beginning with "tholepin": tholepins. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Tholepin" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: choloepi, holopic, Thorleif, toodlepip, Totleben. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Tholepin

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-h-i-l-n-o-p-t"

-1 letter: hoplite, hotline, neolith, pinhole, potline, topline.

-2 letters: entoil, eolith, ethion, holpen, lepton, ophite, phenol, pinole, pintle, piolet, plinth, pointe, polite, pontil.

-3 letters: elint, eloin, helio, helot, hotel, inept, inlet, lento, lithe, litho, netop, olein, opine, pelon, phone, pilot, pinot, pinto, piton, point, teloi, thein, thine, thiol, thole, toile, tophe, tophi.

-4 letters: elhi, enol, heil.

 Words containing the letters "e-h-i-l-n-o-p-t"
 

+1 letter: lithopone, phonolite, tholepins.

 

+2 letters: clothespin, lithophane, lithopones, neutrophil, phonolites, telephonic, thiopental.

 

+3 letters: cephalothin, clothespins, entomophily, helicopting, lithophanes, neutrophils, phantomlike, phytoalexin, polytechnic, technophile, telephonies, telephoning, telephonist, thiopentals.

 

+4 letters: cephalothins, epithalamion, hypnotizable, inhospitable, luteotrophin, monophyletic, nephrologist, neutrophilic, nympholeptic, phenotypical, phentolamine, phonetically, phrenologist, phylogenetic, phytoalexins, plainclothes, polytechnics, relationship, siphonostele, technophiles, telephonists, theophylline, upholstering.

 

+5 letters: anthophyllite, cephalization, dinitrophenol, endolymphatic, entomophilies, entomophilous, helicoptering, hyperrational, luteotrophins, lycanthropies, nephelometric, nephrologists, nonalphabetic, phallocentric, phenobarbital, phenomenalist, phentolamines, phrenologists, pyrotechnical, relationships, rhinoplasties, siphonosteles, theophyllines.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Tholepin


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 68 6F 6C 65 70 69 6E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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