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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of birl.

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Examples

  • All at once Dick birled three rapid strokes from left to right as though about to roll the log, leaped into the air and landed square with both feet on the other slant of the timber.

    Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day Various

  • The boy waved his hat and birled the log until the spray flew.

    The Rules of the Game Stewart Edward White 1909

  • All at once Dick birled three rapid strokes from left to right as though about to roll the log, leaped into the air and landed square with both feet on the other slant of the timber.

    Blazed Trail Stories and Stories of the Wild Life Stewart Edward White 1909

  • John birled a bright sovereign on the counter, one of twenty old Gourlay had battered his brains to get together for the boy's expenses.

    The House with the Green Shutters George Douglas Brown 1885

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