thirled

Verb (1)

thirl (third-person singular simple present thirls, present participle thirling, simple past and past participle thirled)

1. (transitive, otherwise obsolete) To pierce; to perforate, penetrate, cut through.
   • 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.1567, Arthur Golding: Ovid's Metamorphoses Bk. 3 lines 78-81
2. (obsolete, transitive) To drill or bore; to cut through, as a partition between one working and another.

Verb (2)

thirl (third-person singular simple present thirls, present participle thirling, simple past and past participle thirled)

1. (obsolete) To throw (a projectile).
   • 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 [translating lanceant] such darts at their enemies, that might with much more advantage be cast at them., II.8

Verb (3)

thirl (third-person singular simple present thirls, present participle thirling, simple past and past participle thirled)

1. (historical, transitive) To legally bind (a tenant) to the use of one's own property as an owner.
2. (broadly) To bind; to obligate to use or be associated with.
   • Was everyone nowadays thirled to a formula?1951, Josephine Tey, The Daughter of Time, page 10

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