Associations to the word «Thurl»

Wiktionary

THURL, verb. (obsolete) To cut through; to pierce.
THURL, verb. (mining) (obsolete) To cut through, as a partition between one working and another.
THURL, noun. A hole; an aperture.
THURL, noun. (mining) A short communication between adits in a mine.
THURL, noun. (mining) A long adit in a coalpit.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne