thirl

Etymology 1
From, , from , from , from , from which is  +  (equivalent to ) from. Related to,.

Noun

 * 1)  A hole, an aperture, especially a nostril.
 * 2)  A low door in a dry-stone wall to allow sheep to pass through; a smoot.
 * 3)  A short communication between adits in a mine.
 * 4)  A long adit in a coalpit.

Etymology 2
From, , , from , from the noun (see above). .

Verb

 * 1)  To pierce; to perforate, penetrate, cut through.
 * 2) * 1567, Arthur Golding: Ovid's Metamorphoses Bk. 3 lines 78-81
 * But yet his hardnesse savde him not against the piercing dart.
 * For hitting right betweene the scales that yeelded in that part
 * Whereas the joynts doe knit the backe, it thirled through the skin,
 * And pierced to his filthy mawe and greedy guts within.
 * 1)  To drill or bore; to cut through, as a partition between one working and another.

Etymology 3
. Perhaps a.

Verb

 * 1)  To throw (a projectile).
 * , II.8:
 * And many Authours doe in this manner wound the protection of their cause, by over-rashly running against that which they take hold-of, thirling such darts at their enemies, that might with much more advantage be cast at them.

Etymology 4
Dialectal alteration of.

Verb

 * 1)  To legally bind (a tenant) to the use of one's own property as an owner.
 * 2)  To bind; to obligate to use or be associated with.

Noun

 * 1)  A thrall.

Etymology
From, from , from.

Noun

 * 1) An external bodily orifice.