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▪ I. gurl, n. Now Sc.|gɜːl|
[Cf. gurl v.]
A growl; boisterous or rough weather.
1755J. Shebbeare Lydia (1769) I. 85 A voice that was rather a gurl, like an old hound gnawing a bone, than a human sound. 1790A. Wilson in Poems & Lit. Prose (1876) II. 84 Poor starvin' dogs Glower fierce wi' hungry gurle. 1826Galt Last of Lairds iv. 32 He had a pleasure..in gripping me by the coat-neck, and shaking me wi' a gurl. 1880in D. H. Edwards Mod. Sc. Poets I. 325 He's houfft till the gurl gaed past.
▪ II. gurl, a. Sc.
Also 6 gurll, gourl.
[Cf. gurl v.; also grill a.]
Of weather: Boisterous, rough.
1513Douglas æneis vii. Prol. 58 For gurll [v.r. gourl] weddir growyt bestis haire. 1719Ramsay Fam. Ep. Answ. iii. 27 When northern blasts the ocean shurl, And gars the heights and hows look gurl.
▪ III. gurl, v. Now Sc.|gɜːl|
Also 4 gurle.
[Echoic; cf. grolling, growl.]
1. intr. To rumble, growl; (of the wind) to roar, howl.
c1380Wyclif Serm. Sel. Wks. II. 249 As a mete in a man, þat is not defied bifore, makiþ mannis bodi to gurle [v.r. groule]. 1587L. Mascall Govt. Cattle (1627) 62 The gurling or rumbling in the belly, and noyse in his guts. 1791A. Wilson Pack in Poems & Lit. Prose (1876) II. 33 Fearfu' winds loud gurled. 1832–53J. Ballantine in Whistle-Binkie (Scot. Songs) Ser. ii. 90 Whaur the rain fa's in floods, an' the wind gurls chill. 1885Standard 2 Apr. 5/2 They [sc. otter-dogs] ‘gurl’ and fight amongst themselves.
†2. = gurgle v. 2. Obs. rare—1.
But perh. gurled is a misprint for gurgled; if so this is the earliest instance of gurgle v. 2.
1635J. Hayward tr. Biondi's Banish'd Virgin 28 The blood that at thy appearing gurled out of this wound, both convicts thee, and requires at my hands Iustice. |