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Scheduled Ancient Monument status. "Thirlwall"
combines Middle English Thirl,
contracted with wall; in context,
reference and
proximity to Roman-built...
- the area
named it "Dirdale Door".
Durdle is
derived from the Old
English thirl,
meaning to pierce, bore or drill,
which in turn
derives from thyrel, meaning...
- arch-shaped rock
formation just offs**** in
Thurlestone Bay. Thurl, or
Thirl being an Anglo-Saxon word
meaning hole. The village's All
Saints church...
- 28194 (Beefstand Hill)
Thirl Moor 558 1,831 NT806083 55°22′10″N 2°18′20″W / 55.36944°N 2.30556°W / 55.36944; -2.30556 (
Thirl Moor)
Mozie Law 552 1...
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Volcanic vents may have been
located along the
faults at
Harthope and
Thirl Moor. The
earliest volcanic activity in the area was
violent and explosive...
-
supposedly situated on or near the site St
Andrew Thirling Cell
Augustinian Canons Regular —
grange or cell
Thirling Priory Thorney Abbey +
anchorites or hermits...
- "nosþyrlu" (c. 1050); "nos-thirlys" (c. 1500). In 1565 "nosthrille" appears; "
thirl"/"thurl"
survived even longer,
until 1878).
Metathesis is also a common...
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Fluellen (Shakespeare,
Henry V). Th also
occurs dialectally for wh, as in
thirl, thortleberry, thorl, for whirl, whortleberry, whorl. Conversely, Scots...
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special officers necessary for
their maintenance (Plut. Sol. 21 ; comp.
Thirl wall, Hist, of Greece, vol. ii. p. 51).
Their name is also
mentioned by...
- 2
november 2005.
Warren Clements, "Dunch me if you wish, but not in the
thirl or the coccyx",
Globe & Mail, 3
november 2007.
Janet Maslin, "Light Reading...
