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Definition of Birled
1. birl [v] - See also: birl
Lexicographical Neighbors of Birled
Literary usage of Birled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English and Scottish Popular Ballads by George Lyman Kittredge (1896)
"34 ' Ye birl, ye birle at my luve's wake The white bread and the wine, And or
the morn at this same time Ye '11 birle the same at mine.' 35 They birled ..."
2. Popular British Ballads, Ancient and Modern by Reginald Brimley Johnson (1894)
"She has birled in him, Young Hunting, The good ale and the wine: Till he was as
love-drunken As any wild-wood swine. Up she has ta'en him, Young Hunting, ..."
3. The Scottish Ballads by Robert Chambers (1829)
"This day ye birl at my love's wake The white breid and the wine ; Before the morn
at twal o'clock, Ye'll birl the same at mine!" They birled, they ..."
4. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1879)
"She birled him with the al« and wine. As they sat down to sup ; A living man he laid
... 0 «be has birled these merry young men But I wot he ne'er rose up. ..."
5. The Lost Beauties of the English Language: An Appeal to Authors, Poets by Charles Mackay (1874)
"Oh, she has birled these mery yong men Scott's Border Minstrelsy: Ballad of Fause
... He keepit close the house and birled at the wheel. ..."
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