thill

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In doing this the near hind-wheel rose against the churchyard wall and the whole mountainous load went over, two of the four wheels rising in the air, and the legs of the thill horse.

From The Mayor of Casterbridge by Hardy, Thomas

He was talking as much to himself as to the poor fellow who clung to the thill.

From King Spruce, A Novel by Day, Holman

X. A little road not made of man, Enabled of the eye, Accessible to thill of bee, Or cart of butterfly.

From Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete by Dickinson, Emily

Now no dray moves more readily to the thill than I do to the painter's chair.

From St. Nicholas Vol. XIII, September, 1886, No. 11 An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks by Various

A little road not made of man, Enabled of the eye, Accessible to thill of bee, Or cart of butterfly.

From Poems by Emily Dickinson, Series One by Higginson, Thomas Wentworth