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▪ I. thirling, vbl. n.1|ˈθɜːlɪŋ|
Forms: see thirl v.1
[f. thirl v.1 + -ing1.]
1. The action of thirl v.1; piercing, boring.
a1225Ancr. R. 166 Þet, ȝif ȝe weren iðe worldes þrunge, mid a lutel hurlunge [MS. T. hurtlinge; MS. C. þurlunge] ȝe muhten al uor leosen. 1443Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 713 Cum thirlyng unius shafte, ut patet per bill. 10li.
2. Coal Mining. See quots. and cf. thirl1 4.
1686Plot Staffordsh. 148 Between the wallings there were ribbs left, and passages through them called thurlings. 1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) V. 101/1 The workings called rooms, turned off at right angles from the others,..the workings called throughers or thirlings, 9 feet wide, wrought through at right angles from one room to another. 1839Ure Dict. Arts 976 Let fig. 840 be a small portion of the pillars, rooms, and thirlings formed in a coal-field.
▪ II. thirling, vbl. n.2|ˈθɜːlɪŋ|
[f. thirl v.2 + -ing1.]
A bringing into subjection or bondage.
1535Stewart Cron. Scot. (Rolls) II. 444 Rycht hevelie he buir into his hart The grit ouirthraw and thirling of his ring [= realm]. 1871A. S. Harvey in Gd. Words 615 As in the hosiery trade, so in the fishery, the ‘thirling’ begins with the boy, and is never subsequently thrown off.
b. thirling mill, a mill to which certain lands, etc. are astricted in thirlage.
1773Fergusson Farmer's Ingle xi, How big a birn maun lie on bassie's back, For meal and multure to the thirling mill. 1824Mactaggart Gallovid. Encycl. s.v. Thirlage, All [mills] erected by such compactions are thirling mills.
▪ III. thirling, ppl. a.1|ˈθɜːlɪŋ|
[f. thirl v.1 + -ing2.]
That thirls; piercing.
c1380Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 27 Þoru liȝt of þin arrowis, þat is, of þi þurlinge wordis. 1398[see thirl v.1 5]. a1547Surrey æneid iv. 91 [The hind which] the Shepheard smiteth at unwares And leaves unwist in her the thirling head. 1566Drant Horace, Sat. iii. F vij, What thirlinge thrawes doth twitche thy harte? a1618Davies Eglogues Poems (1772) 116 To let in thirling notes of noted laies. 1801W. Beattie Parings (1873) 28 Really this night's thirlin'; I never maist fan sic a frost.
▪ IV. † ˈthirling, ppl. a.2 Obs.
[f. thirl v.3 2 + -ing2.]
Flying like something hurled; darting; whirling.
1567Turberv. Ovid's Epist. 22 Where thou with thy nymble arme a thyrling launce doth cast. 1579Remedy agst. Love B iij b, To hunt, to hawke, to throwe the thyrling darte. a1593Marlowe Hero & Leander i. 108 Nor that night-wandering, pale, and watery star (When yawning dragons draw her [Diana's] thirling car From Latmus' mount up to the gloomy sky). |