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thiller

thiller noun: the horse that goes between the thills, or shafts of a carriage, and supports them.

Noun

thiller (plural thillers)

  1. The horse that goes between the thills, or shafts of a carriage, and supports them.
    • , And apron, and scissars for head and for tail, / Whole bridle and saddle, whitleather, and nall, / With collars and harness, for thiller and all […]1557 February 13 (Gregorian calendar), Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie, London: […] Richard Tottel, →OCLC; republished London: […] Robert Triphook, […], and William Sancho, […]...
    • [T]he middle of it [i.e., the thigh, is] the prop or thiller, the body the vveight, and the leg the povver; either of vvhich being brought by a ſharp angle to a dovvnright or perpendicular or more, vvith the thiller, vvill by ſo much leſſen the vveight, from the yielded aſſumption in that mechanick...1674, N[athaniel] Fairfax, chapter V, in A Treatise of the Bulk and Selvedge of the World. Wherein the Greatness, Littleness and Lastingness of Bodies are Freely Handled. […], London: […] Robert...
  2. The last horse in a team.

Forms of thiller

pluralthillers

Origin of thiller

From thill + -er.

Questions about thiller

What does thiller mean?
Thiller means the horse that goes between the thills, or shafts of a carriage, and supports them.
What part of speech is thiller?
Thiller is a noun.
What is the plural of thiller?
The plural of thiller is thillers.

Words near thiller in the dictionary

  1. thilk
  2. thill
  3. thill-horse
  4. thill-horses
  5. thilled
  6. thiller
  7. thillers
  8. thillhorse
  9. thillhorses
  10. thills
  11. thilly

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