Thill vs Hill - What's the difference?
thill | hill |
One of the two long pieces of wood, extending before a vehicle, between which a horse is hitched; a shaft.
The thin stratum of underclay which lies under a seam of coal; the bottom of a coal-seam.
*1888 , Rudyard Kipling, ‘At Twenty-two’, In Black and White , Folio Society 2005, p. 405:
*:One by one, Janki leading, they crept into the old gallery – a six-foot way with a scant four feet from thill to roof.
An elevated location smaller than a mountain.
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*:So this was my future home, I thought!Backed by towering hills , the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
A sloping road.
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(label) A heap of earth surrounding a plant.
(label) A single cluster or group of plants growing close together, and having the earth heaped up about them.
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(label) The pitcher’s mound.
To form into a heap or mound.
To heap or draw earth around plants.
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