单词 | thirling |
释义 | thirlingn.1 1. The action of thirl v.1; piercing, boring. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > making holes or becoming holed > [noun] > by boring, piercing, or perforating thirling?c1225 piercingc1390 boringc1440 perforationa1500 terebration1623 wimbling1623 perfossion1695 drilling1698 pertusion1727 punching1815 pre-drilling1938 ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 128 Þet ȝf ȝeweren inworldes þrung wið alutel þurlung [a1250 Titus hurtlinge; a1250 Nero hurlunge] ȝe machten al leosen. 1443 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1901) III. 713 Cum thirlyng unius shafte, ut patet per bill. 10li. 2. Coal Mining. See quots. and cf. thirl n.1 4. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > passage > ventilation passages or openings througher1645 thirling1686 air-pit1709 horse-head1747 sollar1778 airway1800 wind-hole1802 bearing door1813 air course1814 downcast shaft1814 upcast shaft (or pit)1816 buze1823 air road1832 raggling1839 thirl1847 brattice1849 intake1849 run1849 trapdoor1849 skailing1850 return1851 wind-road1860 breakthrough1875 wind-way1875 breast1882 cross-heading1883 skail-door1883 U.C.1883 undercast1883 vent1886 furnace-drift1892 the world > matter > gas > air > fresh air > [noun] > supplying fresh air or ventilation > ventilator > passage, shaft, duct, or pipe > in a mine througher1645 thirling1686 air-pit1709 airway1800 wind-hole1802 air course1814 buze1823 air road1832 raggling1839 air heading1841 thirl1847 run1849 wind-road1860 wind-way1875 1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. iii. 148 Between the wallings there were ribbs left, and passages through them called thurlings. 1797 Encycl. Brit. 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. 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 976 Let fig. 840 be a small portion of the pillars, rooms, and thirlings formed in a coal-field. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online December 2020). thirlingn.2 a. A bringing into subjection or bondage. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > slavery or bondage > [noun] > enslavement thirling1535 mancipation1577 enthraldom1582 esclavishing1583 enthralment1595 enthralling1603 beslaving1641 enslavement1692 1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) II. 444 Rycht hevelie he buir into his hart The grit ouirthraw and thirling of his ring [= realm]. 1871 A. S. Harvey in Good Words 12 615 As in the hosiery trade, so in the fishery, the ‘thirling’ begins with the boy, and is never subsequently thrown off. b. thirling mill n. a mill to which certain lands, etc. are astricted in thirlage. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal obligation > [noun] > obligations of tenants > to have corn ground at particular mill > mill custom mill1607 customary milla1638 thirling milla1774 a1774 R. Fergusson Poems (1785) 164 How big a birn maun lie on bassie's back, For meal and multure to the thirling mill. 1824 J. Mactaggart Sc. Gallovidian Encycl. at Thirlage All [mills] erected by such compactions are thirling mills. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022). thirlingadj.1 That thirls; piercing. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > making holes or becoming holed > [adjective] > piercing bearingOE stickinga1250 thirlingc1380 piercinga1400 lancentc1400 prunyeand1533 broaching1566 empiercing1604 pouncing1798 cleaving1819 intrenchant1833 probing1868 c1380 J. Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 27 Þoru liȝt of þin arrowis, þat is, of þi þurlinge wordis. 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Bodl.) (1495) viii. xxviii Light is a bodilich substaunce..moste meuable and passinglich þorling. a1547 Earl of Surrey tr. Virgil Fourth Bk. Aeneas (1554) iv. sig. Bi [The hind which] the Shepheard fasteneeth in her unware: And left in her vnwyst the thyrlyng head. 1566 T. Drant tr. Horace Medicinable Morall sig. Fvij What thirlinge throwes doth twitche thy harte? 1614 J. Davies in W. Browne Shepheards Pipe sig. G5v To let in thirling notes of noted laies. 1801 W. Beattie Fruits Time Parings 36 Really this night's thirlin'; I never maist fan sic a frost. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2020). † thirlingadj.2 Obsolete. Flying like something hurled; darting; whirling. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > moving with current of air or water > motion in the air > [adjective] > flying (as) with wings > with whirling or darting motion thirling1567 1567 G. Turberville tr. Ovid Heroycall Epist. 22 Where thou with thy nymble arme a thyrling Launce dost cast. 1579 W. A. Speciall Remedie (1844) B iij b To hunt, to hawke, to throwe the thyrling darte. a1593 C. Marlowe Hero & Leander (1598) 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). 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