Citations:thill

shafts of a wagon

 * if the Thills were fixed under the Axis
 * [1755,, "thill" in A Dictionary of the English Language:
 * The shafts of a wagon; the arms of wood between which the last horse is placed.]
 * 1868, Elihu Burritt, Walks in the Black Country and its green border-land, page 310:
 * As for one of the great four-wheeled wagons used here, thilled instead of poled, an American farmer would hardly think of dragging it up a hill empty with a single horse.
 * As for one of the great four-wheeled wagons used here, thilled instead of poled, an American farmer would hardly think of dragging it up a hill empty with a single horse.