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▪ I. † whurl, v. Obs.
Also 5–6 whorle, 6 whyrle, 7 wherl.
[Imitative.]
intr. To make a roaring or rumbling noise; to purr, as a cat; to snarl or growl, as a dog. (Cf. wharl v., whirr v. 3, 3 b.) Hence † whurling vbl. n. and ppl. a.; also † whurl n. = wharl n.
1495Trevisa's Barth. De P.R. xi. ii. (W. de W.), In y⊇ eeres wynde makith whystlyng and whorlinge [Bodl. MS. trongelinge] and ryngynge. 1530Palsgr. 781/2 This wynde whorleth so I can nat here. 1553Brende Q. Curtius v. 81 b, Y⊇ vse of the eares could not serue for one to receiue counsel..at an other, the wynd whyrlid so amonges the leaues. 1555Eden Decades (Arb.) 112 The sea raged and rored..with a horrible whurlinge. 1607Tourneur Rev. Trag. iv. ii. G 3, He whurles and rotles in the throate. 1608Topsell Four-f. Beasts 105 How [the cat] whurleth with her voyce. 1611Cotgr., Gronder, to whurle, whurre, yarre, like a dog that is angrie. 1625in Foster Engl. Factories Ind. (1909) III. 51 The flying shoot..macking such a wherling noyse in the ayere. 1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) XIII. 112/1 The commonalty are..distinguished by a kind of shibboleth or whurle, being a particular way of pronouncing the letter R, as if they hawked it up from the wind-pipe, like the cawing of rooks.
▪ II. whurl(e, whurr, whurra, whurry
see whirl, whirr, hurrah, whirry. |