thirl

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

1. A hole, an aperture, especially a nostril.
2. A low door in a dry-stone wall to allow sheep to pass through; a smoot.
3. (obsolete) A short communication between adits in a mine.
4. (obsolete) A long adit in a coalpit.

Verb

1. (obsolete) To pierce; to perforate, penetrate, cut through.
2. (obsolete) To drill or bore; to cut through, as a partition between one working and another.

Verb

To throw (a projectile).

Verb

1. To legally bind (a tenant) to the use of one's own property as an owner.
2. To bind; to obligate to use or be associated with.

Synoniemen

thrill

bore

perforate

pierce

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/θɝl/

Etymologie (Engels)

From Middle English thirl, thiril, from Old English þyrel (“hole”), from Proto-West Germanic *þurhil, from Proto-Germanic *þurhilą (“hole, opening”), from Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂kʷelo- which is *tr̥h₂kʷe + *-lo (equivalent to through + -le) from *terh₂-. Related to thrill, drill.