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‖ birlinn|bɪərlɪn|
Forms: 6– birling, 7– birlin, 8 birline, bierlin, 9 berlin, birlinn, biorlinn.
[Gaelic birlinn, bierlinn.]
A large barge, or rowing boat, used by the chieftains of the Western Islands of Scotland.
1595in Tytler Hist. Scot. (1864) IV. 236 Running their galleys, boats and birlings into a little harbour. a1639Spottiswood Hist. Ch. Scot. vi. (1677) 468 With a number of Birlings (so they call the little vessels those Isles-men use). 1792–9Statist. Acc. Scot. VI. 292 He..kept always a bierlin or galley in this place with 12 or 20 armed men, ready for any enterprise. 1815Scott Guy M. xl, A place where their berlins and galleys, as they ca'd them, used to lie. 1873Burton Hist. Scot. VI. lxv. 39 No single chief should keep more than one birling. 1883Stewart Nether Lochaber lxi. 398 Receiving in return an eight-oared birlinn. |