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Definition of Thill
1. Noun. One of two shafts extending from the body of a cart or carriage on either side of the animal that pulls it.
Definition of Thill
1. n. One of the two long pieces of wood, extending before a vehicle, between which a horse is hitched; a shaft.
Definition of Thill
1. Noun. The thin stratum of underclay which lies under a seam of coal; the bottom of a coal-seam. ¹
2. Noun. One of the two long pieces of wood, extending before a vehicle, between which a horse is hitched; a shaft. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Thill
1. a shaft of a vehicle [n -S]
Medical Definition of Thill
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1. One of the two long pieces of wood, extending before a vehicle, between which a horse is hitched; a shaft.
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Thill
Literary usage of Thill
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cincinnati Superior Court Reporter by Ohio Superior Court (Cincinnati), Charles Phelps Taft, Bellamy Storer, Peter Rawson Taft (1872)
"NICHOLAS & ADOLPH thill. • ADOLPH thill v. NICHOLAS thill ET AL. Where several
attachments were levied upon the property of an insolvent firm at different ..."
2. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1901)
"[thill was the correct old word also.] The shafts of a cart or waggon. This is
the reading of the old 4to and first folio of Troilus and Cressida, ..."
3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1894)
"thill, the floor of a coal seam. On this, flat deals of beech wood were formerly
... A " holey thill" was one of these tramways when worn into holes by the ..."
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