Definitions For Thurl

Etymology 1

See thirl.

Alternative forms

thirl

Verb

{{en-verb}} (transitive, obsolete) To cut through; to pierce. : (Piers Plowman) (transitive, mining, obsolete) To cut through, as a partition between one working and another.

Noun

THURL (plural THURLs) A hole; an aperture. (mining) A short communication between adits in a mine. (mining) A long adit in a coalpit.

Etymology 2

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Noun

THURL (plural THURLs) (agriculture, chiefly in the plural) Either of the rear hip joints where the hip connects to the upper leg in certain animals, particularly cattle; often used as a reference point for measurement.