Lexicographical Neighbors of Dirled
Literary usage of Dirled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Bookman (1898)
"in the pretty- way my blade dirled on the harn-pans of the rascals. There was
one trick of the sword I had learned off an old sergeant of pikes in Mackay's ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1891)
"Within, the lamps flared and flickered, and the very rafters of the cottage dirled
to the merry sound of the fiddle, and the rapid rhythmic tread of the ..."
3. Ringan Gilhaize; Or, The Covenanters by John Galt (1823)
"The kirk dirled to die foundations; the hearts of his hearers shook, till the
earth of their sins was shaken clean from them; and he appeared in the ..."
4. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: To which is by John Jamieson (1880)
"To vibrate, to emit a tingling sound proceeding from a tremulous motion, 3.; as,
He »truck the table, till it aw dirled. To He Till roof and He screw'd the ..."
5. John Splendid: The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn by Neil Munro (1898)
"in the pretty way my blade dirled on the harn-pans of the rascals. There was one
trick of the sword I had learned off an old sergeant of pikes in Mackay's ..."
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