2. Verb. (third-person singular of thirl) ¹
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Definition of Thirls
1. thirl [v] - See also: thirl
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thirls
Literary usage of Thirls
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Annals of Philosophy by Richard Phillips, E W Brayley (1817)
"If all the stops in the thirls of the range nD withstand the shocks given to the
air in them, by the advancing and retreating motion, this part of the ..."
2. Annals of Philosophy, Or, Magazine of Chemistry, Mineralogy, Mechanics by Thomas Thomson (1817)
"If all the stops in the thirls of the range n D withstand the shocks given to
the air in them, by the advancing and retreating motion, this part of the ..."
3. The Mining Engineer (1895)
"As the branch workings on the levels advance, stalls, bords, throughs or (as
locally termed) thirls, are commenced—leaving pillars 24 to 45 feet in length. ..."
4. Annual Report (1903)
"... about thirls inches wide. 'I hi- verv unnatural and disfiguring wall offered
a convenient place for people to sit upon and it became nere-sarv to ..."
5. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register by Henry Fitz-Gilbert Waters (1900)
"... third part to my son Isaac Beecher and two thirls to my eldest son William
Potter, making him my Executor, desiring him to be as a father to his younger ..."
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