Definitions of thirl:
- noun: (archaic or dialectal) A hole, an aperture, especially a nostril.
- noun: (dialectal) A low door in a dry-stone wall to allow sheep to pass through; a smoot.
- noun: (mining, possibly obsolete) A short communication between adits in a mine.
- noun: (mining, possibly obsolete) A long adit in a coalpit.
- verb: (transitive, possibly obsolete) To pierce; to perforate, penetrate, cut through.
- verb: (transitive, mining, obsolete) To drill or bore; to cut through, as a partition between one working and another.
- verb: (obsolete) To throw (a projectile).
- verb: (historical, transitive) To legally bind (a tenant) to the use of one's own property as an owner.
- noun: (historical) A thrall.
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