Definition & Meaning | English word THIRL

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Definitions of THIRL

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

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