Usually means: Opening allowing light or air.
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We found 15 dictionaries that define the word thirl:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. thirl: Merriam-Webster
  2. thirl: Collins English Dictionary
  3. thirl: Wordnik
  4. thirl: Wiktionary
  5. thirl: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  6. thirl: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. Thirl, thirl: Dictionary.com
  8. Thirl: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. thirl: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. Thirl: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. thirl: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. thirl: FreeDictionary.org
  13. thirl: TheFreeDictionary.com

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. thirl: A Word A Day
  2. thirl: Wordcraft Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (thirl)

noun:  (archaic or dialectal) A hole, an aperture, especially a nostril.
noun:  (dialectal) A low door in a dry-stone wall to allow sheep to pass through; a smoot.
noun:  (mining, possibly obsolete) A short communication between adits in a mine.
noun:  (mining, possibly obsolete) A long adit in a coalpit.
verb:  (transitive, possibly obsolete, puristic) To pierce; to perforate, penetrate, cut through.
verb:  (transitive, mining, obsolete) To drill or bore; to cut through, as a partition between one working and another.
verb:  (obsolete) To throw (a projectile).
verb:  (historical, transitive) To legally bind (a tenant) to the use of one's own property as an owner.
verb:  (by extension) To bind; to obligate to use or be associated with.
noun:  (historical) A thrall.

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