Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
thirl , thirling.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A hole; an aperture.
- noun A short communication between adits in a mine.
- noun A long adit in a coalpit.
- transitive verb obsolete To cut through; to pierce.
- transitive verb (Mining) To cut through, as a partition between one working and another.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete To cut through; to pierce.
- verb mining, obsolete To cut through, as a
partition between one working and another.
Etymologies
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See thrill.
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Examples
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It means a hole in your wall that you can look through (the literal meaning, in Old English, of eye-thurl is “eye hole”).
Some words whose meanings have changed without controversy « Motivated Grammar 2010
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Thrull, drill, thrill, thirl, and thurl, are all current elsewhere -- all from Saxon [Greek text].) {82} Of course there should be forty-eight signatures, as appended, doubtless, to the original document.
sionnach commented on the word thurl
cow's hip-joint.
February 11, 2008
wytukaze commented on the word thurl
To be distinguished from thirl.
January 12, 2009