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Definition of Hirpled
1. hirple [v] - See also: hirple
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hirpled
Literary usage of Hirpled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Glossaries to S.R. Crockett's The Stickit Minister, The Raiders, The Lilac ...by Patrick Dudgeon by Patrick Dudgeon (1895)
"... later on, afterwards hirpled, moving haltingly—T. harpa "He, tir'd and weary,
hirpled down the brae."—Ross. ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1894)
"... it was mair than men might do,— So they e'en sailed back in the auld coal-smack,
a sorry and shamefaced crew, And they hirpled doun to Edinburgh toun, ..."
3. The Works of Robert Burns by Robert Burns (1840)
"He hirpled up, and lap like daft, And shor'd them Daintie Davie, O' boot that night.
He was a care-defying blade, As ever Bacchus listed, Though Fortune ..."
4. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1905)
"... this figure as it hirpled about the garden from the morning dews till the
sunset was what commended itself to the speculation of my earliest years. ..."
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