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THOLES
THOLES, (tholet, Fr.) certain small pins driven perpendicularly into the upper edge of a boat, as expressed by e, fig. I. plate III. In the exercise of rowing, the oar is contained between the two tholes, in the space which is called the row-lock. Sometimes there is only one pin to each oar, as in the boats navigated on the Mediterranean sea. In that case the oar is hung upon the pin by means of a strop; and indeed this method is much more ancient than the former. See the article ROWING.
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 291, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
http://southseas.nla.gov.au/refs/falc/1350.html