English Explanatory Dictionary

eyethurl

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A window.

Word forms

eyethurl eyethurls

Etymology

From eye + thurl (“hole”), a modern calque of Old English ēagþyrel. Popularized by Susan Kelz Sperling’s 1977 book Poplollies and Bellibones: A Celebration of Lost Words (see quotation).

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