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shafts of a wagon
1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. , London: J H for H Mortlock , and J Robinson , →OCLC:
- if the Thills were fixed under the Axis
- [1755, Samuel Johnson, "thill" in A Dictionary of the English Language:
- The shafts of a wagon; the arms of wood between which the last horse is placed.]
- 1868, Elihu Burritt, Walks in the Black Country and its green border-land, page 310:
- As for one of the great four-wheeled wagons used here, thilled instead of poled, an American farmer would hardly think of dragging it up a hill empty with a single horse.