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thurl - What does it mean?

Definition of 'thurl'

English

Verb

(en-verb)
  • (obsolete) To cut through; to pierce.
  • (Piers Plowman)
  • (mining|obsolete) To cut through, as a partition between one working and another.
  • Noun

    (en-noun)
  • A hole; an aperture.
  • (mining) A short communication between adits in a mine.
  • (mining) A long adit in a coalpit.
  • (Webster 1913)