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Thurl vs Churl - What's the difference?

thurl | churl |

As nouns the difference between thurl and churl

is that thurl is a hole; an aperture while churl is a rustic; a countryman or labourer; a peasant.

As a verb thurl

is to cut through; to pierce.

thurl

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (obsolete) To cut through; to pierce.
    • (Piers Plowman)
  • (mining, obsolete) To cut through, as a partition between one working and another.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A hole; an aperture.
  • (mining) A short communication between adits in a mine.
  • (mining) A long adit in a coalpit.
    • (Webster 1913)

    churl

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A rustic; a countryman or labourer; a peasant.
  • * Emerson
    • Your rank is all reversed; let men of cloth / Bow to the stalwart churls in overalls.
  • A rough, surly, ill-bred person; a boor.
  • * Sir Philip Sidney
    • A churl's courtesy rarely comes, but either for gain or falsehood.
  • A selfish miser; an illiberal person; a niggard.
  • * Drayton
    • like to some rich churl hoarding up his pelf
  • (Theodism) a freedman, ranked below a thane but above a thrall

    • See also

    * churlish

    External links

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