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Definition of Thurls
1. thurl [n] - See also: thurl
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thurls
Literary usage of Thurls
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Principles of Agriculture: A Text-book for Schools and Rural Societies by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1909)
"... level between hooks 2 Rump, lone, wide 2 Pin-bonex or thurls, high, wide apart
I Thighs, thin, long '2 Legs, straight, short; shank fine i Tail, long, ..."
2. Types and Breeds of Farm Animals by Charles Sumner Plumb (1920)
"The legs should stand squarely under the animal, so that a plumb line dropped
from the point of the thurls will bisect the hock and the shank bone of the ..."
3. The Law of Wills by Isaac Fletcher Redfield (1866)
"thurls- ton,3 Lord Hardwicke said : " The word ' issue ' will carry it to all
descendants; and in the present case the word ' children,' which may admit of ..."
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