Definitions

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Mining) Same as thurl, n., 2 (a).

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  • verb Present participle of thurl.

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Examples

  • While he had been weltering, hooling and thurling, the distance beneath him had not bothered him unduly, but now that he was

    Mostly Harmless Adams, Douglas, 1952- 1992

  • He weltered towards it, hooling and thurling, and at last reached it in a meaninglessly long umthingth of time.

    Mostly Harmless Adams, Douglas, 1952- 1992

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