thirl

== English == === Pronunciation === (General American) IPA(key): /θɝl/ (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /θɜːl/ Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)l === Etymology 1 === 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, from *terh₂-. Related to thrill, drill. By surface analysis, through +‎ -le. ==== Alternative forms ==== thurl ==== Noun ==== thirl (plural thirls) (dialectal or puristic, otherwise archaic) A hole, an aperture, especially a nostril. (dialectal) A low door in a dry-stone wall to allow sheep to pass through; a smoot. (mining, obsolete) A short communication between adits in a mine. (mining, obsolete) A long adit in a coalpit. ===== Related terms ===== eyethurl nostril === Etymology 2 === From Middle English thirlen, thurlen, thorlen, from Old English þȳrlian (“to pierce”), from the noun (see above). Doublet of thrill. ==== Alternative forms ==== thurl ==== Verb ==== thirl (third-person singular simple present thirls, present participle thirling, simple past and past participle thirled) (transitive, puristic, otherwise obsolete) To pierce; to perforate, penetrate, cut through. 1567, Arthur Golding: Ovid's Metamorphoses Bk. 3 lines 78-81 But yet his hardnesse savde him not against the piercing dart. For hitting right betweene the scales that yeelded in that part Whereas the joynts doe knit the backe, it thirled through the skin, And pierced to his filthy mawe and greedy guts within. (transitive, mining, obsolete) To drill or bore; to cut through, as a partition between one working and another. ===== Derived terms ===== thirlable === Etymology 3 === Uncertain. Perhaps a blend of throw +‎ hurl. ==== Verb ==== thirl (third-person singular simple present thirls, present participle thirling, simple past and past participle thirled) (obsolete) To throw (a projectile). , II.8: And many Authours doe in this manner wound the protection of their cause, by over-rashly running against that which they take hold-of, thirling [translating lanceant] such darts at their enemies, that might with much more advantage be cast at them. === Etymology 4 === Dialectal alteration of thrall. ==== Alternative forms ==== thrill ==== Verb ==== thirl (third-person singular simple present thirls, present participle thirling, simple past and past participle thirled) (historical, transitive) To legally bind (a tenant) to the use of one's own property as an owner. (by extension) To bind; to obligate to use or be associated with. ===== Related terms ===== thirlage ==== Noun ==== thirl (plural thirls) (historical) A thrall. == Middle English == === Etymology 1 === From Old English þyrel, from Proto-West Germanic *þurhil, from Proto-Germanic *þurhilą. ==== Alternative forms ==== ðirl, thirle, thrile, thrill, thurl, þirile, þroll, þurl, þurle ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /θirl/, /θril/ (Western) IPA(key): /θyrl/ ==== Noun ==== thirl (plural thirles) An aperture or hole, especially of the body: A nostril (aperture in the nose) A wound or gash; an opening from injury. A window or gap in a building or vessel. (rare) A private room. ===== Related terms ===== nesethirl nosethirl thirlen ===== Descendants ===== English: thirl, thurl Scots: thirl ⇒ Yola: thorelucke ===== References ===== “thirl, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007. === Etymology 2 === ==== Verb ==== thirl alternative form of thirlen