Oar vs. Thole — What's the Difference?

An oar is an implement used for water-borne propulsion. Oars have a flat blade at one end.

Thole is a surname.

A pole with a flat blade, used to row or steer a boat through the water

A thole pin.

Propel with or as if with oars; row

To suffer.

A long, thin pole with a blade at one end, inserted into an oarlock and used to row or steer a boat.

To endure, to put up with, to tolerate.

A person who rows a boat, especially in a race.

A pin in the side of a boat which acts as a fulcrum for the oars.

To propel with or as if with oars or an oar.

A pin, or handle, of the snath (shaft) of a scythe.

To traverse with or as if with oars or an oar

(architecture) A cupola, a dome, a rotunda; a tholus.

To move forward by or as if by rowing

A wooden or metal pin, set in the gunwale of a boat, to serve as a fulcrum for the oar in rowing.

A type of lever used to propel a boat, having a flat blade at one end and a handle at the other, and pivoted in a rowlock atop the gunwale, whereby a rower seated in the boat and pulling the handle can pass the blade through the water by repeated strokes against the water's resistance, thus moving the boat.

The pin, or handle, of a scythe snath.

An oarsman; a rower.

To bear; to endure; to undergo.

(zoology) An oar-like swimming organ of various invertebrates.

To wait.

(literary) To row; to travel with, or as if with, oars.

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

An implement for impelling a boat, being a slender piece of timber, usually ash or spruce, with a grip or handle at one end and a broad blade at the other. The part which rests in the rowlock is called the loom.

An oarsman; a rower; as, he is a good oar.

An oarlike swimming organ of various invertebrates.

To row.

An implement used to propel or steer a boat