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Thurl

Thurl \Thurl\, n. [AS. [thorn]yrel a hole. [root]53. See Thirl, Thrill.]

  1. A hole; an aperture. [Obs.]

  2. (Mining)

    1. A short communication between adits in a mine.

    2. A long adit in a coalpit.

Thurl

Thurl \Thurl\, v. t. [See Thrill.]

  1. To cut through; to pierce. [Obs.]
    --Piers Plowman.

  2. (Mining) To cut through, as a partition between one working and another.

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thurl

n. 1 A hole; an aperture. 2 (context mining English) A short communication between adits in a mine. 3 (context mining English) A long adit in a coalpit. vb. 1 (context obsolete English) To cut through; to pierce. 2 (context mining obsolete English) To cut through, as a partition between one working and another.

Usage examples of "thurl".

Even Thurl said that when he said the Words of Making this year, they would not live inside him.

Sentinel, Thurl Hoston, had warned him: Either they would surprise the Shuhr agents, in which case this would seem all too easy or they would be taken captive and subjected to terrible violations.

Thenn thurled thay ayther thik side thur3 bi the rybbe, And henged thenne ayther bi ho3e3 of the fourchez, Vche freke for his fee, as falle3 for to haue.

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

While he had been weltering, hooling and thurling, the distance beneath him had not bothered him unduly, but now that he was gripping, the distance made his heart wilt and his brain bend.