birling

[ UK /bˈɜːlɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
  1. rotating a log rapidly in the water (as a competitive sport)

How To Use birling In A Sentence

  • His mistake was to attempt a back-heel on the run which bounced off Cameron, setting his little legs birling.
  • Yes, so see a bloke revolving a log in the water while he's standing on it, and you know it's birling.
  • Certain kings and princes of the Turf would be birling in their graves at the thought of a syndicate winning the world's most famous Flat race - the Royal Ascot Club is the first to do so in 225 years of the race.
  • In a week when Celtic start their Champions League campaign, their greatest manager might just be birling in his grave.
  • This was event one: birling. Times, Sunday Times
  • Simon Vincent plays the Birlings' alcoholic dandy of a son and perfectly exposes the irony present when a parent accuses their child of being spoilt.
  • Gone are the days when a wee dram and a tin of shortbread were enough to get the nation birling into a hangover worthy of a new year.
  • Birlinger, A. "Die Nonnen von St. Katherinenthal bei Diessenhofen" (Leben alemannischer Frauen des Mittelalters 5), Alemannia 15 (1887): 150 – 84. Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
  • We have managed to stagger to a situation where fans of some sports and participants in others are birling hither, while fans and would-be sporty types from different pursuits have been confined to barracks and Grandstand.
  • After leaving the Old Vic, he played Eric Birling in J. B. Priestley's, An Inspector Calls at the New Theatre in October 1946.
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