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The word thrill arrives from the verb form of an earlier word, thirl — to make a hole, to pierce, to penetrate — with thirl itself tied back to thruh, from which we get through.

The word comes from the English “thirl,” meaning to pierce something with a sharp instrument–to bore it, which is what Pichette and Kordestani were doing to their audience.

Thirl, thėrl, n. a form of thrall.—v.t. to bind or subject.—n.

Thirl′age, a form of servitude by which the grain produced on certain lands had to be ground at a certain mill and a certain proportion paid.

An elbuck dirl will lang play thirl.