Thill vs Thrill - What's the difference?
thill | thrill |
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.
(ergative) To suddenly excite someone, or to give someone great pleasure; to (figuratively) electrify; to experience such a sensation.
* 1937 , Frank Churchill and Leigh Harline, “One Song”, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs , Walt Disney:
* M. Arnold
* Spenser
(ergative) To (cause something to) tremble or quiver.
(obsolete) To perforate by a pointed instrument; to bore; to transfix; to drill.
* Spenser
(obsolete) To hurl; to throw; to cast.
* Heywood
A trembling or quivering, especially one caused by emotion.
* {{quote-book, year=1935, author=
, title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=1
, passage=She mixed furniture with the same fatal profligacy as she mixed drinks, and this outrageous contact between things which were intended by Nature to be kept poles apart gave her an inexpressible thrill .}}
A cause of sudden excitement; a kick.
(medicine) A slight quivering of the heart that accompanies a cardiac murmur.
A breathing place or hole; a nostril, as of a bird.
As nouns the difference between thill and thrill
is that thill is one of the two long pieces of wood, extending before a vehicle, between which a horse is hitched; a shaft while thrill is a trembling or quivering, especially one caused by emotion.As a verb thrill is
(ergative) to suddenly excite someone, or to give someone great pleasure; to (figuratively) electrify; to experience such a sensation.thill
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Alternative forms
* fill (dialectal)Noun
(en noun)thrill
English
Verb
(en verb)- One love / That has possessed me; / One love / Thrilling me through
- vivid and picturesque turns of expression which thrill the reader with sudden delight
- The cruel word her tender heart so thrilled , / That sudden cold did run through every vein.
- He pierced through his chafed chest / With thrilling point of deadly iron brand.
- I'll thrill my javelin.
Noun
(en noun)George Goodchild