thill-horse
(ˈθɪlhɔːs)
See also fill-horse s.v. fill n.2
[f. thill1 + horse.]
The shaft-horse or wheeler in a team.
| c 1325 Gloss. W. de Bibbesw. in Wright Voc. 168 En lymouns [gl.] thilles va ly limounere [gl.] the thillo-hors. c 1425 Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 665/32 Hic uiredus, thylhors. 1483 Funeral Edw. IV in Lett. & Pap. Rich. III, etc. (Rolls) I. 7 Upon the fore horse, and the thil horse sat ij chariot men. 1543 Will J. England (Somerset Ho.), Oon Carte, a Tyll horsse & foure Oxen. 1704 W. Derham in Phil. Trans. XXV. 1583 The Thill-Horse in Charles's Wain, called Alioth. 1876 Browning Pacchiarotto xxi, A Spare-Horse? Be rather a thill-horse. |