No sailing rig is indicated, but tholes for 12 oars or sweeps on each side are shown.
The slow clacking of shafts intholes echoed sharply from the huge walls of the dock as the dinghy drew away through the burning sunshine.
At this sight, both boys stopped rowing, lifted the oars from tholes and began paddling noiselessly, canoe-fashion.
Tholes or grummets for the oars they twisted out of manatee hide.
The buccaneers made grummets, or rings, of it, for use in their row boats instead of tholes or rowlocks.
They are tholesfor the boat, when the smugglers use it.
He drew her up far enough just to place her cable's end at high-water mark; and having put the tholes in their proper places, he then walked across to the white flag.
I see here some young branches of oak; I am going to cut them so as to repair the tholes of the boat; they are old, the green wood is stronger and more pliant.
As they walked, the preceptor gave the tholes a suitable shape; Frederick looked at him with surprise.
At the same time David, with that foresight which never forsook him, carefully examined the oars, and the tholes which serve to keep the oars in place.
Yankee, gnashing his teeth, finding he had to handle the two heavy oars in tholes which did not correspond.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tholes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
