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thole
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thole, tholepin
a wooden pin or one of a pair, set upright in the gunwales of a rowing boat to serve as a fulcrum in rowing
thole
1. Same as tholos.
2. A niche or recess in which votive offerings were made.
3. A knot or escutcheon at the apex of a timber vault.
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Morrison's wording indicates that he was thinking of that space on each side of the ship separately, following the meaning plainly appropriate in the case of galleys like triremi, when discussing the term triskalmos as meaning having three tholepins for working oars and concluding that a trieres has three tholepins in each room on each side of the ship.
Tilley's and Morrison's triremes - evidence and practicality by Coates, John / Antiquity
 
 
 
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