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Thill

name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun

1
A surname.

Noun

1
One of the two long pieces of wood, extending before a vehicle, between which a horse is hitched; a shaft.
2
one of two shafts extending from the body of a cart or carriage on either side of the animal that pulls it wordnet
3
The shallow stratum of underclay that lies under a seam of coal; the bottom of a coal-seam.
"One by one, Janki leading, they crept into the old gallery – a six-foot way with a scant four feet from thill to roof."

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).

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