Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A thill-horse. Compare
wheeler .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The horse which goes between the thills, or shafts, and supports them; also, the last horse in a team; -- called also
thill horse .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
horse that goes between thethills , orshafts , and supports them. - noun The last horse in a
team .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Jerichow, a sexy, twisty, German-language, English-subtitled thiller with a perversely satisfying ending.
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No mention of shoes, didn't think it was appropriate for a thiller.
preconceptions 2008
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The novels I've written aren't entirely different from one another, but someone looking for another drawing room horror novel might be slightly put off by the supernatural crime thiller or the alternate world science fiction that looks a little like fantasy.
Sacrifices 2010
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The novels I've written aren't entirely different from one another, but someone looking for another drawing room horror novel might be slightly put off by the supernatural crime thiller or the alternate world science fiction that looks a little like fantasy.
Sacrifices 2010
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Film-Fatale has news on Paul Verhoeven's next one, an adaptation of Boris Akunin's The Winter Queen, a thiller set in 19th century St Petersburg and London.
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Escapist nonsense, trashy thiller, commercial fiction -- all seem to be negative labels in the literary world.
Reality Check Ahead 2007
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I asked Pat Mullan, the thiller writer and great friend to come along
November 2007 2007
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I asked Pat Mullan, the thiller writer and great friend to come along
Of Books and Gyno's 2007
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That is thiller if you want i will link the video.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Just beat it! Really, please BEAT IT! 2006
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After them came out five great wains, full of leeks, garlic, onions, and chibots, drawn with five-and-thirty strong cart-horses, which was six for every one, besides the thiller.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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