tholing

Verb

thole (third-person singular simple present tholes, present participle tholing, simple past and past participle tholed)

1. (dated, intransitive) To suffer.
   • Seventy beds keeps he there teeming mothers are wont that they lie for to thole and bring forth bairns hale so God’s angel to Mary quoth.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 14: Oxen of the Sun]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 368

   Synonyms:

   ache, anguish, agonize, hurt, pain, passion, suffer, throe, wark, wring

2. (Northern England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, transitive) To endure, to put up with, to tolerate.
   • Nor was long Poſſeſſion in molendino regio, of receiving Multures for all Corns of a Barony promiſcuouſly without exception of Teind, found to bring the Teind under a Thirlage, Except ſuch as tholed Fire and Water there.1705, William Forbes, “Concerning the Burdens that Tiends are Liable to”, in A Treatise of Church-lands & Tithes, Edinburgh: Printed by the heirs and successors of Andrew Anderson [i.e., James...

   Synonyms:

   brook, live with, abear, abide, aby, accept, allow, bear, bide, dree

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