terril

Borrowed from French terril.

terril m (plural terrils, diminutive terrilletje n)

1. (Belgium) slag mountain

• steenberg

From terre + -is, with spelling change reportedly reflecting Belgian colloquial pronunciation.

• IPA^(key): /tɛ.ʁi/ ~ /te.ʁi/, /tɛ.ʁil/ ~ /te.ʁil/

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terril m (plural terrils)

1. a conical pile of waste material removed during mining; spoil tip, boney pile, gob pile, culm bank, waste tip, bing

   Synonym: crassier

• terri (found in Émile Zola, Germinal)

• → Dutch: terril

• “terril”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.