Thùig or Tuig (Norse).

The mounds raised by the old Scandinavians where their courts were held. The word is met with in Iceland, in the Shetlands, and elsewhere in Scotland.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

Through-stone (A)
Throw
Throw
Throw Up the Sponge (To)
Throw your Eye on
Throwing an Old Shoe for Luck
Thrums
Thrummy Cap
Thug [a cheat]
Thuggee
Thùig or Tuig (Norse)
Thule
Thumb
Thumb-nail Legacies
Thumbikins or Thumbscrew
Thunder
Thunder (Sons of) [Boanesgēs]
Thunder and Lightning or Tonnant
Thunders of the Vatican
Thunderbolt of Itàly
Thunderbolts