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See also: þurst
English
[edit]Etymology
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Noun
[edit]thurst (plural thursts)
- (mining) The ruins of the fallen roof in a coal mine, resulting from the removal of the pillars and stalls.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Rossiter W[orthington] Raymond (1881) “Thurst”, in A Glossary of Mining and Metallurgical Terms. […], Easton, Pa.: [American] Institute [of Mining Engineers], […], →OCLC.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “thurst”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams
[edit]Old Saxon
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-West Germanic *þurstu, from Proto-Germanic *þurstuz, from Proto-Indo-European *ters- (“dry”).
Noun
[edit]thurst m
Declension
[edit]Declension of thurst (masculine a-stem)
singular | plural | |
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nominative | thurst | thurstos |
accusative | thurst | thurstos |
genitive | thurstes | thurstō |
dative | thurste | thurstum |
instrumental | — | — |
Descendants
[edit]Categories:
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Mining
- Old Saxon terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Old Saxon terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ters-
- Old Saxon terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic
- Old Saxon terms derived from Proto-West Germanic
- Old Saxon terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Old Saxon terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Old Saxon lemmas
- Old Saxon nouns
- Old Saxon masculine nouns
- Old Saxon a-stem nouns