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- noun Plural form of
thill .
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Examples
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They went to the livery, where the horse was taken from between the thills and put in a stall and given a half measure of grain.
Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003
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They went to the livery, where the horse was taken from between the thills and put in a stall and given a half measure of grain.
Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 1997
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He greased the thills, the pole, even the rack of the cart.
Roumanian Fairy Tales Various
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The thills of the wagon broke off short with reports like the explosions of a pistol.
The Meadow-Brook Girls Under Canvas Janet Aldridge
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Jack said that there had only been enough for the thills, pole, and rack.
Roumanian Fairy Tales Various
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Two boys at the thills and two more pushing behind, they softly trundled it down the yard, stopping at every unusually loud squeak.
The Little Gold Miners of the Sierras and Other Stories Various
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Then an old pair of waggon-thills and a pair of old plough-handles are put to it, and your marker is done.
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It was Saturday, universal shopping-day in the farmland, and a ramshackle line of rustic vehicles -- buggies, democrats, sulkies, lumber wagons -- with graceless plough horses slumbering in the thills, stretched in ragged alignment down the curb.
The Henchman Mark Lee Luther
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It was such a novel thing to be hauled around in those two-wheeled carts, one man pulling at the thills and another pushing at the rear.
An Ohio Woman in the Philippines Giving personal experiences and descriptions including incidents of Honolulu, ports in Japan and China Emily Bronson Conger
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When anybody backed him between the thills of a wagon he was as slow as Timothy Turtle and no more graceful.
The Tale of Pony Twinkleheels Arthur Scott Bailey 1913
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