thole

英 [θəʊl] 美[θol]
  • n. 桨架;钉桨架的钉
  • vt. 忍耐;容许
  • vi. 有耐心

英英释义


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

英文词源


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.

词态变化


第三人称单数: tholes;过去式: tholed;过去分词: tholed;现在分词: tholing;