noun
- a hole or opening, especially one made by boring or piercing
Usage: archaic; dialectal
Examples
- The old door had a thirling where a knot had fallen out of the wood.
- Water seeped through a small thirling in the stone wall.
- The carpenter noticed a thirling in the beam that weakened its structure.
- Light streamed through the thirling in the roof.
- The mouse escaped through a tiny thirling in the baseboard.