thole

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Ads have turned the internet into a sh*thole.

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

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noun

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

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for thole.

noun

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

See also: peg, pin, tholepin, rowlock, oarlock

Example sentences

Ads have turned the internet into a sh*thole.

Only few people remember thole poems and minority of people remember whole songs.

If you don't weed your online garden it will fester and turn into a sh*thole that nobody else wants to be in. If you didn't have strong moderation here on HN, you probably wouldn't be posting here.

Some resource-stripped sh&thole on the other side of the world could get overrun by zombies and it still needn't matter to us because it's only a resource-stripped sh&thole.

I think in the intro he speaks about discovering that the word 'þolian' in Beowulf was used pretty commonly by someone in his family, in its modern incarnation, thole, and was fascinated by that coincidence.

He comes from one of those countries your president considers a sh*thole and scoring that internship polishes his CV enough so that he can get a stable and high paying job which will allow him to stay and not have to go back there.

Blocking access to sites via ISPs is one thing, but am I going to be fined for blogging with an unconservative/anticonservative inclination?This is just going to push new business away, as if the UK wasn't already a sh*thole for startups...