Forms: see THOLE sb.1; also 5 tolpyn. [f. THOLE sb.1 + PIN sb.]
1. A peg used as a fastening; = THOLE sb.1 2.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 496/1. Tolpyn, idem quod tholle, supra.
1881. Isle of Wight Gloss., Thole-pin, the pin that goes into the shafts of the roller by which the horse draws.
1884. 19th Cent., Feb., 244. A coffin … having a thong-hinged cover … fastened by a thole pin.
1893. Inglis, Ain Folk, vii. The thole-pin which kept the loft folding-door in position.
2. = THOLE sb.1 1.
1598. Florio, Schelma … a … peg in a boate whereat the rowers stay their oares when they rowe, called a thoule pin.
1725. Dudley, in Phil. Trans., XXXVI. 264. An Oar … not so much as lifted up out of the Thole-Pin.
1859. W. H. Gregory, Egypt, I. 293. It scorched our hands to touch at midday the iron plates in which the thowl-pins were fastened.
