† Eyethurl

Obs. [f. EYE sb.¹ + THURL.] An eye-hole, a window; also pl. the eye-windows.

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c. 890. K. Ælfred, Bæda, IV. iii. ¶ 3. Ða ontynde se bisceop ðæt eaʓh-þyrl ðære cyricean.

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c. 1175. Lamb. Hom., 83. Þe sunne scineð þurh þe glesne ehþurl.

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a. 1225. St. Marher., 8. Heo þa … biheolden þurh an eyþurl as heo bed hire beoden.

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a. 1225. Ancr. R., 62. Þurh eie þurles deað haueð hire inȝong into þe soule. Ibid., 70. Nout one our earen, auh ower eie þurles tuneð aȝein idel speche.

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