thill
thill — 名詞
1. a vehicle part consisting of two long wooden or metal bars that sit one on each
車轅
馬車前方兩側的長桿
a vehicle part consisting of two long wooden or metal bars that sit one on each side of the horse, letting the animal pull a wagon forward.
Vinícius checked the left thill for cracks before hitching the horse to the wagon.
Vinícius 在將馬套上馬車前，檢查了左側車轅是否有裂痕。
collocation: check the thill; hitch to the wagon
A broken thill forced Adina to stop the carriage and walk the horse home.
一根斷裂的車轅迫使 Adina 停下馬車，牽著馬步行回家。
The blacksmith shaped a new ash-wood thill for Chidi's snapped cart shaft.
鐵匠為 Chidi 那輛斷了轅杆的馬車用白蠟木打了一根新車轅。
collocation: shape a thill from [material]
Hannah oiled both thills each morning so the carriage ran well on the cobbled street.
Hannah 每天早上為兩根車轅上油，讓馬車能在石板路上平穩行駛。
collocation: oil the thills
When Tanvi bought the old farm cart, one thill was missing and the other was cracked.
Tanvi 買下那輛舊農車時，一根車轅不見了，另一根也裂了。
- check the thill
- repair a thill
- replace a thill
- broken thill
- left thill
- right thill
- thill of ash wood
- oiled the thills
用法筆記
In modern English, thill is rarely used outside historical writing about horse-drawn vehicles. The ordinary modern word for the same part is shaft.