nosethirl

• nosethril [16th–17th c.]

From Middle English nosethirl. By surface analysis, nose +‎ thirl. Compare nostril.

nosethirl (plural nosethirls)

1. (now UK regional, archaic) A nostril.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     proud Encelade, whose wide nosethrils burnd / With breathed flames, like to a furnace red [...].

• helitrons, short line, shortline

• nosethrille, nosethurl, nosethrul, nosetherel, nosethrel, nosethorl, nosederl, nosetrel, nosesterl

From Old English nosþyrel, equivalent to nose +‎ thirl.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɔːz(ə)ˌθirl/

nosethirl (plural nosethirles)

1. nostril

• nestryl
• nesethirl
• nostrille

• English: nosethirl (archaic)

• “nōse-thirl, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.