Thurl

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. A hole; an aperture. [Obs.]

2. A short communication between adits in a mine.

3. A long adit in a coalpit.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

1. To cut through; to pierce. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

2. To cut through, as a partition between one working and another.