thill

1. 1.

   one of two shafts extending from the body of a cart or carriage on either side of the animal that pulls it

   Broadershaft

Other forms of thill

plural

thills·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about thill

What does thill mean?

thill means "one of two shafts extending from the body of a cart or carriage on either side of the animal that pulls it".

How many syllables are in thill?

thill has 1 syllable: thill. In IPA it is /ˈθɪl/.

Is thill a common word?

thill is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.