Noun: thill
| Singular | thill |
| Plural | thills |
Sample Sentences
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One by one, Janki leading, they crept into the old gallery – a six-foot way with a scant four feet from thill to roof. [1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘At Twenty-two’, In Black and White, Folio Society, published 2005, page 405:]
Nouns inflected like thill
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English thille, thylle, from Old English þille (“board; floorboard; plank; stake; pole”), from Proto-West Germanic *þilljā, from Proto-Germanic *þiljǭ (“board; floorboard; deck”), from Proto-Indo-European *tel- (“plank; board”). Cognate with Dutch deel, German Low German Deel (> English deal (“plank”)), German Diele, Swedish tilja, Icelandic þilja. Akin to English theal (“board; plank”). Doublet of deal (etymology 3) and theal (dialectal). See: Middle English Nouns '
thille', Old English Nouns '
þille', Dutch Nouns '
deel', German Nouns '
Diele', Swedish Nouns '
tilja', Icelandic Nouns '
þilja'.
Verbs referencing "thill"
Galician Nouns
tillado, Old Norse Nouns
þilja.