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thrillage

thrillage is the obsolete form of thirlage.

Meaning of thirlage

Noun

thirlage (countable and uncountable, plural thirlages)

  1. (Scotland, historical) The right of the owner of a mill to compel tenants to bring all their grain to that mill for milling.

Questions about thrillage

What is thrillage the obsolete form of?
Thrillage is the obsolete form of thirlage.

Words near thrillage in the dictionary

  1. thrill-killer
  2. thrill-killers
  3. thrill-seeker
  4. thrill-seekers
  5. thrillable
  6. thrillage
  7. thrillant
  8. thrillcraft
  9. thrilled
  10. thriller
  11. thrillerdom

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Adapted from Wiktionary: thrillage (page history and authors); thirlage (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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