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Thirl

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Thirl
    To bore; to drill or thrill. See Thrill. "That with a spear was thirled his breast bone."
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) thirl
    A hole; an opening; a place of entrance, as a door or a window.
  2. (n) thirl
    In coal-mining, a short passage cut for ventilation between two headings; a cross-hole. Also thirling.
  3. thirl
    To pierce; bore; perforate; drill.
  4. thirl
    To produce, as a hole, by piercing, boring, or drilling.
  5. thirl
    Figuratively, to penetrate; pierce, as with some keen emotion; especially, to wound.
  6. thirl
    To cause to vibrate, quiver, or tingle; thrill.
  7. thirl
    To make a hole, as by piercing or boring.
  8. thirl
    To vibrate; quiver; tingle; thrill.
  9. thirl
    In coal-mining, to cut away the last web of coal separating two headings or other workings.
  10. thirl
    To thrall, bind, or subject; especially, to bind or astrict by the terms of a lease or otherwise: as, lands thirled to a particular mill. See thirlage.
  11. (n) thirl
    In Scots law, a tract of land the tenants of which were bound to bring all their grain to a certain mill: same as sucken.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (n) Thirl
    thėrl (prov.) a hole: an opening: a short passage between two headings in a mine
  2. (v.t) Thirl
    to pierce, wound: cause to quiver
  3. (v.i) Thirl
    to vibrate, tingle, thrill
  4. (n) Thirl
    thėrl a form of thrall
  5. (v.t) Thirl
    to bind or subject
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary See Thrill

Usage in literature

It's a strange thing that the saul of man should be that thirled into his perishable body; but the minister saw that, an' his heart didnae break. "The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables" by Robert Louis Stevenson

He was too much thirled to the Cleuch and tied to his wife's apron. "The Moon Endureth--Tales and Fancies" by John Buchan

He kens what's wanted, and if he's no thirled to the Elliotts and the Greys, he can vote as he thinks fit. "Mr. Hogarth's Will" by Catherine Helen Spence

They might be incomers, but they were thirled to Gillesbeg all the same, as I found later on. "John Splendid" by Neil Munro

Thurlestone takes its name from a 'thirled' or pierced rock, on the shore through which the waves have drilled an arch. "Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts" by Rosalind Northcote

An elbuck dirl will lang play thirl. "The Proverbs of Scotland" by Alexander Hislop

THIRL'AGE, a form of servitude by which the grain produced on certain lands had to be ground at a certain mill and a certain proportion paid. "Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements)" by Various

Though I live on the lands of a Master of Arts, I had nae inkling that I was thirl to hell. "The Three Perils of Man, Vol. 3 (of 3)" by James Hogg

And then he speaks with sic a taking art, His words they thirle like musick thro' my heart. "The Gentle Shepherd: A Pastoral Comedy" by Allan Ramsay