birl

[ UK /bˈɜːl/ ]
VERB
  1. cause to spin
    spin a coin
  2. cause a floating log to rotate by treading
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How To Use birl In A Sentence

  • We find him cheering the rowers of the galley, with his _birlinn_ chant, and stirring on the fight with his _prosnuchadh catha_, or battle-song. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century
  • After leaving the Old Vic, he played Eric Birling in J. B. Priestley's, An Inspector Calls at the New Theatre in October 1946.
  • The story of how Loch Lomond and the fast-flowing River Leven were used as a highway for trade and commerce, by galleys, birlinns, sailing gabbarts and, on the loch, paddle-steamers, is told more comprehensively here than anywhere else.
  • At Birley's sandwich shop downstairs, Antonio , Tomasz and Karim slice salt beef for their customers.
  • Cumberland dialect, a _birler_, or _burler_, is the master of the revels, who presides over the feast at a Cumberland bidden-wedding, and takes especial care that the drink be plentifully provided. Notes and Queries, Number 72, March 15, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
  • BIRLE is a Java implementation of a bijective Run Length Encoding. Softpedia - Windows - All
  • The next day this pransome hince went all over this corn foundry looking for the geautiful birl who had slopped her dripper. Rindercella
  • It is likely that the dry island, flanked by beaches ideal for pulling up highland galleys or birlinns or hide boats and with a sheltered deep anchorage on the northeast side, would have been used long before the castle was built.
  • Galleys are direct descendants of Viking ships - the Gaelic name birlinn probably derives from byrdingr, a type of small Norse cargo vessel.
  • Once upon a time in a corn foundry there lived a geautiful birl and her name was Rindercella. Rindercella
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