What's the difference between thole and tole?

Thole


Definition:

  • (n.) A wooden or metal pin, set in the gunwale of a boat, to serve as a fulcrum for the oar in rowing.
  • (n.) The pin, or handle, of a scythe snath.
  • (v. t.) To bear; to endure; to undergo.
  • (v. i.) To wait.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These data were confirmed by the habituation test to he thole-board whereby, after three days of exposure, low exploratory baseline of mice was constant.

Tole


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To draw, or cause to follow, by displaying something pleasing or desirable; to allure by some bait.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Multiple attempts at contacting Toles, who now lives in Wisconsin, were unsuccessful.
  • (2) He wasn’t the most credible witness: Toles promptly stated on the stand that he lied in order to get better housing placement in jail.
  • (3) The tolE mutation causes tolerance to colicins E2 and E3 as well as other effects on the phenotype of Escherichia coli K-12.
  • (4) A possible tole of UV-damaged phage DNA in propagation of infection and in maturation of phage particles is discussed.
  • (5) Toles related that Harris’s admissions upset him because what Harris did was wrong,” the police recorded the snitch explaining.
  • (6) Despite Harris’s vociferous protestations that he would never say such a thing to a total stranger, and his public defender Andrea Lyon’s objections, Toles testified at Harris’s trial.
  • (7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Both Lee Harris’s friend and a former colleague remember this letter as being from David Toles, a jailhouse snitch who said he overheard Harris admitting to a murder and whom an appellate judge called an ‘admitted liar’.
  • (8) So did a former co-worker, John Innis, who remembered the letter and vouched for Toles’ authorship of it to the Guardian.
  • (9) David Toles, who was 26 and locked up for burglary and auto theft at the time, said he overheard Harris in a Cook County jail dayroom confess to the murder shortly after he introduced himself to Harris, so they could play blackjack.
  • (10) The map position is shown by the gene order trp-purB-tolE-tolD-galKETO.
  • (11) Asked if it was difficult to remember his lies, Toles stated to the court: “Well, not really, if it is for your own benefit.” Conspicuously, after his testimony, Toles pleaded guilty on a burglary charge that and received a three-year sentence.

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