thirl

About 0.00 uses per million words.

Meaning

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

Similar words

thurl thrill thrapple thropple thrussy facehole thrum chink throat spithole

Often followed by

wall by mere of

Word family

thirled thirling thirls