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  • noun Scotland ferrule

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Examples

  • Donate them to your local public library; if your library won't take them, our library will: virl. bc.ca and please re-cycle anything too far gone to re-use. teapot

    Advisor: What should I do with my high school CD collection? Boing Boing 2010

  • YELLOW: P. Evra, D. Berbatov, J.Carragher. virl. com 3 hours ago - HIGHLIGHT GOAL MATCH Liverpool 2 vs 0

    BallHype - Top Sports News, Videos, and Blogs 2009

  • Hanc cognatienem lingux Germanicae cum Pcrfica eruditi virl deducunt dicendo: Ptrthos & Gcrmano* a Scjtbis oriundos, diu Per - fidetn tenuifle, ac proinde utrique nationi Perfici fermonis permulta vocabula inhaefifie qus Gcrmani ex Scythia orti ad Ddnubii 8c tnaris BfiUbici rijias Stsvm tfctifkriac, Vtfewtir 4e Juc re Shddii an -

    De antiquitate et affinitate linguæ zendicæ, samscrdamicæ, et germanicæ ... 1798

  • a wooden stump and a brass virl, or to have his head blown off his shoulders, mast high, like ingan peelings, with some exploding earthquake of combustible gunpowder.

    The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself David Macbeth Moir 1824

  • a wooden stump and a brass virl, or to have his head blown off his shoulders, mast high, like ingan peelings, with some exploding earthquake of combustible gunpowder.

    The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith David Macbeth Moir 1824

  • Der schpots ish a goot way offen, und vill nefer virl you away; und next dime I dells you someding schmooth und britty. "

    Without a Home Edward Payson Roe 1863

  • He says dere ish -- vat you call him -- pig virl-a-rounds up dere dat vould plow all der beoples off der earth in von vink, und ven I tells him dat he ish von pig virl-a-round himself, runnin 'und runnin', und lettin 'der vork schstand, den von of der schpots come outen on him und I dink he plow my hed offen. "

    Without a Home Edward Payson Roe 1863

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  • means ferrule

    August 20, 2011