thrill

Etymology 1

From Old English þȳrlian (“to pierce”), derived from þȳrel (“hole”) (archaic English thirl).

verb

1. (ergative) To suddenly excite someone, or to give someone great pleasure; to (figurative) electrify; to experience such a sensation.
   1854, Matthew Arnold, Preface to Poems vivid and picturesque turns of expression […] which thrill the reader with a sudden delight
   One love / That has possessed me; / One love / Thrilling me through 1937, Frank Churchill, Leigh Harline (lyrics and music), “One Song”, in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Walt Disney
2. (ergative) To (cause something to) tremble or quiver.
3. (obsolete) To perforate by a pointed instrument; to bore; to transfix; to drill.
4. (obsolete) To hurl; to throw; to cast.
   I'd thrill my jauelin at the Grecian moysture 1632, Thomas Heywood, The Iron Age

noun

1. A trembling or quivering, especially one caused by emotion.
   She mixed furniture with the same fatal profligacy as she mixed drinks, and this outrageous contact between things which were intended by Nature to be kept poles apart gave her an inexpressible thrill. 1935, George Goodchild, chapter 1, in Death on the Centre Court
2. A cause of sudden excitement; a kick.
3. (medicine) A slight quivering of the heart that accompanies a cardiac murmur.
4. A breathing place or hole; a nostril, as of a bird.

Etymology 2

Blend of thread (verb) + drill (verb).

verb

1. (machining) To drill and thread in one operation, using a tool bit that cuts the hole and the threads in one series of computer-controlled movements.