thur

thur (not comparable)

1. Eye dialect spelling of there.
   • 2007 November 11, Virginia Heffernan, “High-Def at High Noon”, in New York Times‎:

     “Thur’s a lot of Indians down thur, Captain Scull,” one says.

thur

1. Eye dialect spelling of there.
   • 1898, Richard Jefferies, The Toilers of the Field‎:

     "I'd 'ave sooner had 'un of anybody else," said he, "but thur war nur anuther to be had, and it bean't such a bad 'un nither, only Measter Humphreys be hardish in the mouth."

   • 1905, Joseph Hocking, Roger Trewinion‎:

     Any-rate, thur wur lots of talk, fur 'twas seed not only in the church, and churchyard, but up at the house."

• Hurt, Ruth, hurt, ruth, thru

From Proto-Albanian *tsurja, from *ḱr̥H-, zero-grade of Proto-Indo-European *ḱer- ‘to tie, plait’ (compare Ancient Greek καῖρος (kaîros) ‘row of thrums on the loom’, Armenian սարդ (sard) ‘spider’).

thur (first-person singular past tense thura, participle thurur)

1. to plait, braid, interweave
2. to knit
3. to fence in, enclose

• thark