tholtan

/toʊltən/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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noun

"You can be sitting in a tholtan down in back Castle Street in Peel in a bit of property that is not fit to live in, but it will still be rated at about £55. So the whole system, really, is wrong."
"Throughout the Isle, abandoned tholtans, devoid of their thatched roofs and whitewash, are silent reminders of the people who once were sheltered near the warmth of their hearths and sang in their own Celtic tongue."
"Near the schoolhouse was a tholtan, a tiny, half-ruined cottage with sagging thatch and the door off its hinges."

From Manx tholtan. Compare tolltach (“full of holes”).

tholtans (plural)

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How do you pronounce tholtan?

The recorded pronunciation is /toʊltən/.

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Where does tholtan come from?

From Manx tholtan. Compare tolltach (“full of holes”).

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