thole


n. 桨架;钉桨架的钉

vt. 忍耐;容许

vi. 有耐心

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thole (v.)
"to be subjected to or exposed to, to endure without complaint," now Scottish and Northern English dialect, from Old English þolian "to suffer, endure, undergo; remain, survive; to lose, lack, forfeit," from Proto-Germanic stem *thul- (cognates: Old Saxon tholon, Old High German dolon, Old Norse þola, Gothic þulan "to suffer," German geduld "patience"), from PIE *tele- "to bear, carry" (see extol).
thole (n.)
"peg," from Old English þoll "oar-pin," from Proto-Germanic *thulnaz (cognates: Old Norse þollr, Middle Low German dolle, East Frisian dolle, Dutch dol), of unknown origin. No record of the word in English from c. 1000 to mid-15c.

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