THIRL

Definition: THIRL

1. To bore; to drill or thrill. See Thrill.

Note: Thirl \Thirl\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Thirled; present participle verb or noun Thirling.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definitions
Mining	Thirl:to cut through from one working into another; thirling:the driving of a proposed roadway from two points some distance apart and to meet each other-the connecting of underground roadways or shafts; holing:the final act of connecting two roadways underground-the meeting of two roadways driven expressly to intersect each other. Source: European Union. (references)
	A. A cross hole or ventilation passage between two headings. See also:thurl; thurling; thirling b. To cut out the lost coal between two workings or headings. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

English words defined with "THIRL": Thirled, Thirling. (references)

Etymologies containing "THIRL": Tirl. (references)

Language		Translations for "THIRL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Spanish		calarse (get soaked, squeeze in, swoop, work in). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "THIRL": thirlage, thirlages, thirled, thirling, thirls. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "h-i-l-r-t"
	-1 letter: hilt, thir, tirl.
	-2 letters: hit, lit, til.
	-3 letters: hi, it, li, ti.
	Words containing the letters "h-i-l-r-t"
	+1 letter: liroth, lither, thirls, thrill.
	+2 letters: alright, blither, inthral, lathier, lighter, luthier, philter, philtra, philtre, relight, rightly, slither, thirdly, thirled, thrills, trochil, urolith.
	+3 letters: acrolith, aerolith, blighter, blithers, brightly, chlorite, clothier, earthily, eldritch, filthier, flichter, frothily, heartily, heliport, hilarity, horntail, hotelier, hurtling, inthrall, inthrals, kryolith, lighters, litharge, lothario, luthiers, mirthful, outwhirl, philters, philtred, philtres, philtrum, plighter, regolith, relights, rhyolite, rightful, slighter, slithers, slithery, thirlage, thirling, thornily, thrilled, thriller, thurible, trashily, triethyl, triglyph, trochili, trochils, ultrahip, uroliths, whistler, whittler, worthily, wrathily.
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