Thirl

Quick meaning: Thirl is a noun meaning (mining, obsolete) A short communication between adits in a mine.

Meaning

(mining, obsolete) A short communication between adits in a mine.

More Meanings

1. (mining, obsolete) A long adit in a coalpit.
2. (transitive, puristic, otherwise obsolete) To pierce; to perforate, penetrate, cut through.
3. (transitive, mining, obsolete) To drill or bore; to cut through, as a partition between one working and another.
4. (dialectal or puristic, otherwise archaic) A hole, an aperture, especially a nostril.
5. (dialectal) A low door in a dry-stone wall to allow sheep to pass through; a smoot.
6. (obsolete) To throw (a projectile).
7. (historical, transitive) To legally bind (a tenant) to the use of one's own property as an owner.

Example Sentences

Was everyone nowadays thirled to a formula?

And there are plenty of people — Labour politicians, for example — who want people to remain thirled to poverty, who do not want them to have any spirit or independence.

And many Authours doe in this manner wound the protection of their cause, by over-rashly running against that which they take hold-of, thirling [translating lanceant] such darts at their enemies, that might with much more advantage be cast at them.

But yet his hardnesse savde him not against the piercing dart. For hitting right betweene the scales that yeelded in that part Whereas the joynts doe knit the backe, it thirled through the skin, And pierced to his filthy mawe and greedy guts within.

Word Forms

• thirls
• thirling
• thirled

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include thurl, thrill, thrapple, thropple, thrussy, facehole.

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